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repeated on each occasion for thirty years. A sattra, session, is a long sacrifice which may last a year or more.]
[Footnote 4: The latter are the metrical codes, a part of Smriti (sm[r.]ti).]
[Footnote 5: The Five Paramount Sacrifices (Observances) are, according to Manu III. 70, study of the Veda (or teaching it); sacrifice to the Manes and to the gods; offerings of foods to ghosts (or spirits); and hospitality.]
[Footnote 6: In the report of the Or. Congress for 1880, p. 158 ff., Williams has a very interesting account of the daily rites of the modern orthodox Hindu ('Rig Veda in Religious Service').]
[Footnote 7: We ignore here the later distinction between the Ved[=a]nta and S[=a]nkhya systems. Properly speaking, the latter is dualistic.]
[Footnote 8: At a later date Buddha himself is admitted into the Brahmanic pantheon as an avatar of the All-god!]
[Footnote 9: Sometimes regarded as one with Praj[=a]pati, and sometimes treated as distinct from him.)
[Footnote 10: Thus (for the priestly ascetic alone) in M. vi. 79: 'Leaving his good deeds to his loved ones and his evil deeds to his enemies, by force of meditation he goes to the eternal brahma.' Here brahma, but in Gautama perhaps Brahms=a].]
[Footnote 11: That is, when the latter are grouped as in the following list. Our point is that, despite new faith and new gods, Vedic polytheism is taught not as a form but as a reality, and that in this period the people still believe as of old in the old gods, though they also acknowledge new ones (below).]