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(1) eman with 471750T, air and Tiara (2) cine with gera sfarzania and You (3) Tead with sfaget. Ce and ga: (4) Et with u , arter and 977
The seventeenth, #leat was the gra who superin tended the whole sacrifice as its presiding priest.
On its part, the priestly class directed all its energies to the further development of ceremonial side, which they worked out in endless detail and to which they attached the most fanciful and mystic significance. The elaboration of the technical part of the sacrifice and the growth of a special class of experts who made a monopoly of the art became so marked that intellectualism of this kind began to be confused with morality, and virtue became a bý-word for fineness and fussiness over little things.
. This state of things was very disconcerting to the serious-minded section of society, and many people took recourse to meditation and contemplation of the truth. They discarded the rituals and the pantheistic worship of the priests, and developed what is known as the way of knowledge (767411) distinguished from the way of ritualism (1991) of the Brahmana. From. out of their philosophical and metaphysical speculations there developed the six famous schools of Indian philosophy--the Sānkhya school of Kapila, the Yoga. school of Patanjali, the Nyāya school of Gautam, the Vaiseshika school of Kanāda, the Pūrva-Mimāņsa of Jaimini, and the Uttara-Mimansa or Vedanta of Vyāsa. These Upanishadic philosophers concerned themselves with the problems of the origin of the world, the nature of godhood and the creative process in general ; and in seeking to solve these pro
blems they expounded in fact a new religion which • aimed at the achievement of deliverance from mundane
existence by the absorption of the individual soul (171) in the world-soul (TE) by virtue of correct knowledge. The underlying principles of this new religion upon
