ns desert the gods, and the demons
thrive. In _Cat. Br._ i. 5. 4. 6-11, the Asuras and Indra
contend with numbers.]

[Footnote 38: Mueller, ASL. p. 529.]

[Footnote 39: _M[=a]it. S_. iv. 2. 12; _Cat. Br_. i. 7. 4.
1; ii. 1. 2. 9; vi. 1. 3. 8; _[=A]it. Br_. iii. 33. Compare
Muir, OST. iv. p. 45. At a later period there are frequently
found indecent tales of the gods, and the Br[=a]hmanas
themselves are vulgar enough, but they exhibit no special
lubricity on the part of the priests.]

[Footnote 40: _Idam aham ya ev[=a] smi so asmi, Cat. Br_. i.
1. 1. 6; 9. 3. 23.]

[Footnote 41: RV. viii. 51. 2; Zimmer, _loc. cit_. p. 328.]

[Footnote 42: Compare Weber, _Episch. in Vedisch. Ritual_,
p. 777 (and above). The man who is slaughtered must be
neither a priest nor a slave, but a warrior or a man of the
third caste (Weber, _loc. cit_. above).]

[Footnote 43: _Le Mercier_, 1637, ap. Parkman, _loc. cit_.
p. 80. The current notion that the American Indian burns his
victims at the stake merely for pleasure is not incorrect.
He frequently did so, as he does so to-day, but in the
seventeenth century this act often is part of a religious
ceremony. He probably would have burned his captive, anyway,
but he gladly utilized his pleasure as a means of
propitiating his gods. In India it was just the other way.]

[Footnote 44: Substitutes of metal or of earthen victims are
also mentioned.]

[Footnote 45: That the Vedic rite of killing the sacrificial
beast (by beating and smothering) was very cruel may be seen
in the description, _[=A]it. Br_. ii. 6.]

[Footnote 46: _Cat. Br._ i. 5. 2. 4.]

[Footnote 47: _Sams[=a]ra_ is transmigration; _karma_,
'act,' implies that the change of abode is conditioned by
the acts of a former life. Each may exclude the other; but
in common parlance each implies the other.]

[Footnote 48: Weber, _Indischt Streifen_, i. p. 72.]

[Footnote 49: _Cat. Br_. i. 7. 3. 19: iii. 4. 1. 17.]

[Footnote 50: _Caf. Br_. iii. 5. 4. 10; 6. 2. 24; 5. 3. 17
(compare 6. 4. 23-24; 3. 4. 11; 2. 1. 12); iii. 1. 2. 4; 3.
14; i. 7. 2. 9; vi. 1. 2. 14. The change of name is
interesting. There is a remark in another part of the same
work to the effect that when a man prospers in life they
give his name also to his so