(higher) state if the offerings continue. As a matter of
ceremonial this means that the remoter generations of
fathers are put indefinitely far off, while the immediate
predecessors of a man are the real beneficiaries; they climb
up to the sky on the offering.]

[Footnote 23: Compare _Cat. Br_. i. 8. 1. 40; ii. 6. 1. 3,
7, 10, 42; ii. 4. 2. 24; v. 5. 4. 28.]

[Footnote 24: This passage (_ib_. ii. 1. 2. 7) is preceded
by a typical argument for setting up the fires under the
Pleiades, the wives of the Great Bear stars. He may do or he
may not do so--the reasons contradict each other, and all of
them are incredibly silly.]

[Footnote 25: This last fee is not so common. For an
oblation to S[=u]rya the fee is a white horse or a white
bull; either of them representing the proper form of the sun
(_Cat. Br_. ii. 6. 3. 9); but another authority specifies
twelve oxen and a plough (T[=a]itt. S. i. 8. 7).]

[Footnote 26: _Cat. Br_. ii. 1. 1. 3; 2. 3. 28; iv. 3. 4.
14; 5. 1. 15; four kinds of fees, _ib_. iv. 3. 4. 6, 7, 24
ff. (Milk is also 'Agni's seed,' _ib_. ii. 2. 4. 15).]

[Footnote 27: Yet in _[=A]it. Br_. iii. 19, the priest is
coolly informed how he may be able to slay his patron by
making a little change in the invocations. Elsewhere such
conduct is reprobated.]

[Footnote 28: For other covenants, see the epic (chapter on
Hinduism).]

[Footnote 29: _Cat. Br_. iii. 4. 2. 1 ff.; iii. 6. 2. 25;
iv. 3. 3. 3; iv. 4.1.17; 6. 6. 3; 7. 6, etc.; iii. 8. 2. 27;
3. 26; _[=A]it. Br._. i. 24.]

[Footnote 30: _ib_. ii. 6. 2. 5. Here Rudra (compare Civa
and Hekate of the cross-roads) is said to go upon
'cross-roads'; so that his sacrifice is on cross-roads--one
of the new teachings since the time of the Rig Veda. Rudra's
sister, Ambik[=a], _ib_. 9, is another new creation, the
genius of autumnal sickness.]

[Footnote 31: _Cat. Br_. ii. 2. 1. 21. How much non-serious
fancy there may be here it is difficult to determine. It
seems impossible that such as follows can have been meant in
earnest: "The sacrifice, _pray[=a]ja,_ is victory, _jaya_,
because _yaja_ = _jaya_. With this knowledge one gets the
victory over his rivals" (_ib_. i. 5. 3. 3, 10).]

[Footnote 32: Although Bhaga is here (_Cat. Br_. i. 7. 4. 6-7,
_endho b