s.

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FOOTNOTES:

[Footnote 1: In _[=A]it. Br_. I. 22, there is an unexplained
antithesis of Rik, Yajus, S[=a]man, Veda, and Brahma; where
the commentator takes Veda to be Atharva Veda. The priests,
belonging respectively to the first three Vedas, are for the
Rig Veda, the Hotar priest, who recites; for the S[=a]man,
the Udg[=a]tar, 'the singer'; for the Y[=a]jus, the
Adhvaryu, who attends to the erection of the altar, etc.
Compare Mueller, ASL. p. 468.]

[Footnote 2: It is the only literature of its time except
(an important exception) those fore-runners of later
S[=u]tra and epic which one may suppose to be in process of
formation long before they come to the front.]

[Footnote 3: There are several schools of this Veda, of
which the chief are the V[=a]jasaneyi, or 'White Yajus,'
collection; the T[=a]ittir[=i]ya collection; and the
M[=a]itr[=a]yan[=i] collection; the first named being the
latest though the most popular, the last two being the
foremost representatives of the 'Black Yajus.']

[Footnote 4: The different traits here recorded are given
with many illustrative examples by Schroeder, in his
_Literatur und Cultur_, p. 90 ff.]

[Footnote 5: Compare Weber, _Ind. Streifen_, II. 197.]

[Footnote 6: Weber, _Lit_. p. 73.]

[Footnote 7: The _Cata-patha Br[=a]hmana_ (or "Br[=a]mana of
the hundred paths") II. 2. 2. 6; 4.3.14.]

[Footnote 8: The chief family priest, it is said in the
_Cat. Br_. II. 4. 4. 5, is a man of great influence.
Sometimes one priest becomes religious head of two clans (an
extraordinary event, however; only one name is reported) and
then how exalted is his position. Probably, as in the later
age of the drama, the chief priest often at the same time
practically prime minister. It is said in another part of
the same book that although the whole earth is divine, yet
it is the priest that makes holy the place of sacrifice
(III. 1. 1. 4). In this period murder is defined as killing
a priest; other cases are not called murder. Weber, _IS_. X.
66.]

[Footnote 9: Barth, _loc. cit._ p. 42.]

[Footnote 10: He has analogy with Agni in being made of
'seven persons (males),' _Cat. Br._ X. 2. 2. 1.]

[Footnote 11: Compare M[=a]it. S. IV. 2. 12, '