human
The two dogs of Yama in a new role. [22] My late lamented friend, Max Müller, the gifted writer who knew best of all men how to rivet the attention of the cultivated public upon questions of this sort, did me the honor to notice my proposition in an article in the _London Academy_ of August 13, 1892 (number 1058, page 134-5), entitled
gpt
Professor Bloomfield's Contributions to the Interpretation of the Veda. In this article he seems to try to establish a certain similarity between his conception of the Kerberos myth and my own. This similarity seems to me to be entirely illusory. Professor Müller's own last words on the subject in the Preface of his _Contributions to the Science of Mythology_ (p. xvi.), will make clear the difference between our views. He identifies, as he always has identified, Kerberos with the Vedic stem _çarvara_, from which is derived _çarvar[=i]_,
human
To quote his own words:
gpt
The germ of the idea ... must be discovered in that nocturnal darkness, that _ç[=a]rvaram tamas_, which native mythologists in India had not yet quite forgotten in post-Vedic times. With such a view my own has not the least point of contact. Çabala, the name of one of the dogs, means
human
; it is the name of the sun-dog; it is quite the opposite of the _ç[=a]rvaram tamas_. The name of the moon-dog, and, by transfer, the dog of the night, is Çy[=a]ma or Çy[=a]va