sons of
Praj[=a]pati, Agni, V[=a]yu, S[=u]rya.']

[Footnote 12: _Cat. Br._ I. 3. 4. 12; IV. 3. 5. 1.]

[Footnote 13: Interesting is the fact that only priests may
eat sacrificial food and drink _soma_ at this period. When
even the king should drink _soma_, he is made to drink some
transubstantiated liquor which, the priests inform him, has
been 'made into _soma_' for him by magic, for the latter is
too holy for any warrior really to drink (VII. 19; VIII.
20). But in the more popular feasts there are indications
that this rule is often broken. Compare Weber,
_R[=a]jas[=u]ya_ p. 98.]

[Footnote 14: For the relations of the different castes at
this period, see Weber, in the tenth volume of the _Indische
Studien_.]

[Footnote 15: The Atharvan is not yet recognized as a Veda.]

[Footnote 16: And even the pronunciation of a word or the
accent is fateful. The famous godly example of this is where
Tvashtar, the artificer, in anger mispronounced
_indra-catru_ as _indracatru,_ whereby the meaning was
changed from 'conqueror of Indra' to 'Indra-conquered,' with
unexpected result (_Cat. Br._ I. 6. 3. 8; _T[=a]itt. S._ II.
4. 12. 1).]

[Footnote 17: The word is _a[.m]sala_, strong, or 'from the
shoulder' (?). In III. 4. 1. 2 one cooks an ox or a goat for
a very distinguished guest, as a sort of guest-sacrifice. So
the guest is called 'cow-killer' (Weber, _Ved. Beitraege_, p.
36).]

[Footnote 18: Compare _ib_. I. 9. 1. 21, "let the priest not
say 'guard me (or us),' but 'guard this worshipper
(sacrificer),' for if he says 'me' he induces no blessing at
all; the blessing is not for the priest, but for the
sacrificer." In both passages, most emphatically,
_yajam[=a]nasy[=a]iva_, 'for the sacrificer alone.']

[Footnote 19: _Ya[.m] k[=a]ma[.m] k[=a]mayate so 'sm[=a]i
k[=a]ma[h.] sam[r.]dhyate_.]

[Footnote 20: [=A]suri's name as a theologian is important,
since the S[=a]nkhya philosophy is intimately connected with
him; if this [=A]suri be not another man with the same name
(compare Weber, _Lit_. p. 152).]

[Footnote 21: The regular sacrifices to the Manes are daily
and monthly; funerals and 'faith-feasts,' _cr[=a]ddha_, are
occasional additions.]

[Footnote 22: Each generation of Manes rises to a better