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[Footnote 47: The sexual antithesis, so unimportant in the earliest Aryan nature-hymns, becomes more and more pronounced in the liturgical hymns of the Rig Veda, and may be especially a trait of the older fire-cult in opposition to soma-cult (compare RV. X. 18. 7). At any rate it is significant that Yoni means the altar itself, and that in the fire-cult the production of fire is represented as resulting from the union of the male and female organs.]
[Footnote 48: Nevertheless the Brahmanic, and even the Hinduistic, lawcodes condemn all intoxicating liquors except in religious service. To offer such drink to a man of the lower castes, even to a Ç[=u]dra, is punishable with a fine; but to offer intoxicating liquor to a priest is punishable with death (Vishnu, V. 100).]
[Footnote 49: Formerly performed by the Kar[ra]ris. "The Ç[ra]ktas hold the killing of a man to be permitted," Dabist[=a]n, II. 7. "Among them it is a meritorious act to sacrifice a man," ib.]
[Footnote 50: Hence the name of K[ra][=n]culiyas [ka[=n]culi, a woman's garment).]
[Footnote 51: This has no parallel in Vishnuism except among some of the R[=a]dh[=a] devotees. Among the RI=a]dh[=a] Vallabh[=i]s the vulgarities of the Çivaites are quite equalled; and the assumption of women's attire by the Sakh[=i] Bh[=a]vas of Benares and Bengal ushers in rites as coarse if less bloody than those of the Civaites.)
[Footnote 52: Of course each god of the male trinity has his Çakti, female principle. Thus Brahm[=a)'s Çakt[=i) is S[=a]vitr[=i] (in the epic), or Sarasvat[=i), or V[ra]c; that of Vishnu is Çr[=i), or Lakshm[=i), or R[=a]dh[=a]; that of Civa is Um[=a), Durg[=a), K[=a]I[=i), etc. Together they make a female trinity (Barth, p. 199); So even the Vedic gods had