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Annotations : * The title of this note echoes that of an article and then a whole book by Calvert
Watkins, How to Kill a Dragon. Aspects of Indo-European Poetics, New York - Oxford 1995, which tells us much about poetic formulas, but nothing about
the "how" 1. H. Oldenberg, Rgveda. Textkritische und exegetische Noten. Siebentes bis zehntes
Buch, Berlin 1912, 319. Cf. M. Mayrhofer, Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen, Heidelberg 1986-96, s.v., with further literature, and especially
H. W. Bodewitz, Jaiminiya Brāhmana I, 1-65, Leiden 1973, 147f. 2 sastrād is Caland's emendation for sastrā (see his note on Āpastamba Srautasütra
31.2.8). 3. "Vrātya and Sacrifice”, Indo-Iranian Journal 6.1962.1-37 : 18f. 4. See A.B. Keith (transl.) The Veda of the Black Yajus School entitled Taittirīya
Sanhita, Cambridge, Mass. 1914, 521 with fn. 3. 5. M. Witzel, “The Case of the Shattered Head," Studien zur Indologie und Iranistik
13/14.1987.363-416 : 391. 6. “The Case of the Severed Head,” Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde Süd- und
Ostasisens 11.1967.22-43:3Off. Reprinted in The Inner Conflict of Tradition, Chicago 1985, 45-58:50ff. Cf., also for the following, The Broken World of
Sacrifice, Chicago 1993, 72ff. 7. Satapatha Brāhmana 3.8.3.11, 29. 8. Taittirīya Samhitā 6.3.7.4.
9. Ašvalāyana Grhyasūtra 4.8.25. 10. On this problem in general cf. Heesterman, The Broken World of Sacrifice, 9ff. 11. Taittiriya Samhitā 1.3.9 h-k. 12. Taittiriya-Brāhmaṇa 3.9.11.3-4. Āpastamba śrautasūtra 20.19.10; 20-21-15.
Satapatha Brāhmana 13.3.4.2ff. 13. Āśvalāyana Gșhyasūtra 4.8.27. 14. Pāraskara Grhyasūtra 3.8.11. 15. Heesterman, The Broken World of Sacrifice, 73. 16. Satapatha Brāhmaṇa 3.8.2.4-5.
