Note 368 — Chapter V · LUNAR SUPERSTITIONS AND FESTIVALS
Reading edition
L. H. Gray, in Spiegel Memorial Volume, Bombay, 1908, pp. 160-168. Râkâ and Sînîvalî, two of the Vedic goddesses identified with the lunar phases, seem to have been associated with childbirth (Rig-Veda, ii, 32; transl. H. Grassmann, i, 41).