________________ CATTLE, FIELD AND BARLEY 477 thorough study) which was kindly pointed out to me by Dr. C. Kiehnle. In Pradhan's translation (ed. by H. M. Lambert, Bombay 1948, p. 45) the verse (13. 285) reads thus: 'He does not walk over a blade of grass, as there is life within it...'. 77 0.c. (cf. fn. 55), p. 127. 78 It is admittedly not possible to rule out in the present case with absolute certitude that what Patanjali refers to is the vedi on which no barhis has yet been spread. In fact what Sayana on SPB 1. 2. 5. 18 calls vedimarjana might consist in or comprise a panyupaghata. On the other hand, if Patanjali's example were taken in this sense, one would have to make the assumption, not unproblematic in itself, that Patanjali did not regard the element earth as animate, i.e. did not even in a ritual context keep to the ancient view (which is variously attested to among others in the passage of the SPB just mentioned (see e.g. 1.2. 5. 10 and 23 ff.)). As for the different types of vedi-s etc., cf. now H. Krick, Das Ritual der Feuergrundung .(Agnyadheya) ed. by G. Oberhammer, Wien 1982, pp. 109 ff.
