28:3 The Varáha form was chosen, says the Váyu P., because it is an animal delighting to sport in water, but it is described in many Puráńas, as it is in the Vishńu, as a type of the ritual of the Vedas, as we shall have further occasion to remark. The elevation of the earth from beneath the ocean in this form, was, therefore, probably at first an allegorical representation of the extrication of the world from a deluge of iniquity by the rites of religion. Geologists may perhaps suspect, in the original and unmystified tradition, an allusion to a geological fact, or the existence of lacustrine mammalia in the early periods of the earth.

29:4 Yajnapati, 'the bestower of the beneficial results of sacrifices.'

29:5 Yajnapurusha, 'the male or soul of sacrifice;' explained by Yajnamúrtti, 'the form or personification of sacrifice;' or Yajnárádhya 'he who is to be propitiated by it.'