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⁴ HRI. 137. 143, note 1. 182. 1 Cp. Wackernagel, Altind. Gr. p. 70. — 2 Brugmann, Grundriss 2, 298; cp. A. Kuhn, KZ. 4, 103—20; Wackernagel, KZ. 24, 297. — 3 ‘Riches’ according to BRV. 2, 407. — 4 Cp. Oldenberg, SBE. 46, 191. — 5 A. Kuhn, Entwicklungsstufen 134; AIL. 366. — 6 WVB. 1894, 37, note 3; according to BRV. 3, 52, ‘from whom nothing is concealed’. — 7 AIL. l. c.; LRV. 3, 335; KRV. 53—4; HVM. 1, 515; HVBP. 100. — 8 According to Weber, l. c., they are genii of creative time, past, present, and future; according to BRV. 2, 412, three ancient skilful sacrificers who acquired immortality and whose number is connected with the triad of sacrificial fires. Nève, Essai sur le Mythe des Ṛibhavas, Paris 1847; cp. Roth, ZDMG. 2, 126; OST. 5, 226—7; GKR. 119; GRV. 1, 103; BRV. 2, 403—13; 3, 51—5; GGH. 108. 110; WC. 24—6; E. H. Meyer, Germanische Mythologie 124; Anzeiger für deutsches Altertum 13, 31—5; ORV. 235—6 (cp. L. v. Schroeder, WZKM. 9, 253).