"With its customary caution the Vedic Index, which does not at all promote indigenism or an early Rg veda, but adheres…"

"The day is the greatness born to the east of the horse. His source is in the eastern ocean. The night is the greatnes…"

"And both oceans are Varuna's flanks (AV Atharva veda, IV.16.3).16"

"Much Rig Veda imagery is maritime. A hymn in Book Ten says, ‘In the beginning there was darkness hidden in darkness, …"

"That is the great magic power of this divine greatest seer, Varuna, that no one can challenge, when the diverse flowi…"

"Varuna dug a path for the Sun and led forth the ocean-going floods of the rivers."

"Indra killed the dragon, opened outlets for the waters splitting the breasts of mountains then … flowing directly to …"

"To [Indra] go praises… as to the samudra [go] in company those desiring gain."

"All offerings go to Agni like the seven swift-ones flowing to the ocean."

"While some flow together, others flow towards; the rivers fill the common receptacle’."