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immediate predecessors of a man are the real beneficiaries; they climb up to the sky on the offering.]
[Footnote 23: Compare Çat. 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 (Çat. Br. ii. 6.3.9); but another authority specifies twelve oxen and a plough (T[=a]itt. S. i. 8. 7).]
[Footnote 26: Çat. 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 (=Alit. 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: Çat. 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; (=Alit. Br.. i. 24.]
[Footnote 30: ib. ii. 6. 2. 5. Here Rudra (compare Çiva 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.