[Footnote 24: This passage (_ib_. ii. 1. 2. 7) is preceded by a typical argument for setting up the fires under the Pleiades, the wives of the Great Bear stars. He may do or he may not do so--the reasons contradict each other, and all of them are incredibly silly.] [Footnote 25: This last fee is not so common. For an oblation to S[=u]rya the fee is a white horse or a white bull; either of them representing the proper form of the sun (_Çat. Br_. ii. 6. 3. 9); but another authority specifies twelve oxen and a plough (T[=a]itt. S. i. 8. 7).] [Footnote 26: _Çat. Br_. ii. 1. 1. 3; 2. 3. 28; iv. 3. 4. 14; 5. 1. 15; four kinds of fees, _ib_. iv. 3. 4. 6, 7, 24 ff. (Milk is also 'Agni's seed,' _ib_. ii. 2. 4. 15).] [Footnote 27: Yet in _[=A]it. Br_. iii. 19, the priest is coolly informed how he may be able to slay his patron by making a little change in the invocations. Elsewhere such conduct is reprobated.] [Footnote 28: For other covenants, see the epic (chapter on Hinduism).] [Footnote 29: _Çat. Br_. iii. 4. 2. 1 ff.; iii. 6. 2. 25; iv. 3. 3. 3; iv. 4.1.17; 6. 6. 3; 7. 6, etc.; iii. 8. 2. 27; 3. 26; _[=A]it. Br._. i. 24.] [Footnote 30: _ib_. ii. 6. 2. 5. Here Rudra (compare Çiva and Hekate of the cross-roads) is said to go upon 'cross-roads'; so that his sacrifice is on cross-roads--one of the new teachings since the time of the Rig Veda. Rudra's sister, Ambik[=a], _ib_. 9, is another new creation, the genius of autumnal sickness.] [Footnote 31: _Çat. Br_. ii. 2. 1. 21. How much non-serious fancy there may be here it is difficult to determine. It seems impossible that such as follows can have been meant in earnest: "The sacrifice, _pray[=a]ja,_ is victory, _jaya_, because _yaja_ = _jaya_. With this knowledge one gets the victory over his rivals" (_ib_. i. 5. 3. 3, 10).] [Footnote 32: Although Bhaga is here (_Çat. Br_. i. 7. 4. 6-7, _endho bhagas_) interpreted as the Sun, he is evidently the same with Good Luck [Greek: typhlhos ghar ho Êlohhytos] or wealth.]