Note 85 — PART II
Reading edition
In H. Grassmann’s Wörterbuch zum Rig-Veda, twice. One cannot indict a whole sex for inebriety on the strength of a single passage, but fish, despite matsya being masculine in Sanskrit, are always feminine according to the Avesta (vol. v. p. 61, of Sacred Books of the East, Pahlavi Texts): “Water, Earth, Plants, and Fish are female, and never otherwise.”