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L'avamedha. Description du sacrifice solennel du cheval dans le culte vdique d'aprs les textes du Yajurveda blanc. Par P. E. Dumont, charg de cours l'Universit de Bruxelles. pp. xxxvi + 415. Paris: Paul Geuthner, 1927.

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A. Berriedale Keith.

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Type: Reviews of Books
Information: Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies , Volume 5 , Issue 1 , February 1928 , pp. 139 - 144

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0041977X00130848 [Opens in a new window]
Copyright: Copyright School of Oriental and African Studies 1928

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^{page 140 note 1} Keith, , Taittirya Saṁhit, 1, pp.133 ff.;Google ScholarReligion and Philosophy of the Veda, 2, 343 ff.Google Scholar

^{page 140 note 2} In Acta Orientalia, 4, 206, ac-upa, ud is given, but apodacya in the citation.Google Scholar

^{page 141 note 1} Caland, (Acta Orientalia, 4, 189) gives this as the reading of M., but see p. 218, n. 5 of the edition.Google Scholar

^{page 141 note 2} Contrast Baudhyana, 12, 9: Soma is the King of the Brahmins.Google Scholar

^{page 142 note 1} Acta Orientalia, 4, 193.Google Scholar

^{page 142 note 2} Rather ten; there are only eight distinct offerings, but in two cases there are two victims.

^{page 143 note 1} See Keith, , Taittirya Saṁhit, 1, p. 41.Google Scholar

^{page 144 note 1} Trait d'Anatomie comparative des animaux domestiques (ed. 1890), p. 450.Google Scholar

^{page 144 note 2} If masculine yo would be natural in lieu of yan.

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L'avamedha. Description du sacrifice solennel du cheval dans le culte vdique d'aprs les textes du Yajurveda blanc. Par P. E. Dumont, charg de cours l'Universit de Bruxelles. pp. xxxvi + 415. Paris: Paul Geuthner, 1927.

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