The Religion and Philosophy of the Veda and Upanishads v2.c35.58

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⁴ x. 18. 3 and 4. From the idea of the inability of the soul to cross water is perhaps developed the later idea of the Vaitaraṇī stream and of a mimic boat to cross it (Caland, *Todtengebräuche*, pp. 8, 153). Hillebrandt (*Ved. Myth.* iii. 377) sees the Vaitaraṇī's prototype in the Sarasvatī of RV. x. 17. 7-9, and Roth (JAOS. xvi. p. ccxliii) finds the name in JUB. i. 25. 3.