as distinct from him.]

[Footnote 10: Thus (for the priestly ascetic alone) in M.
vi. 79: 'Leaving his good deeds to his loved ones and his
evil deeds to his enemies, by force of meditation he goes to
the eternal _brahma_.' Here _brahma_; but in Gautama perhaps
Brahm[=a].]

[Footnote 11: That is, when the latter are grouped as in the
following list. Our point is that, despite new faith and new
gods, Vedic polytheism is taught not as a form but as a
reality, and that in this period the people still believe as
of old in the old gods, though they also acknowledge new
ones (below).]

[Footnote 12: Compare Manu, ix. 245: "Varuna is the lord of
punishment and holdeth a sceptre (punishment) even over
kings."]

[Footnote 13: In new rites, for instance. Thus in P[=a]rask.
_Grih. S_. 3. 7 a silly and dirty rite 'prevents a slave
from running away'; and there is an ordeal for girls before
becoming engaged (below).]

[Footnote 14: Blood is poured out to the demons in order
that they may take this and no other part of the sacrifice,
_[=A]it. Br_. ii. 7. 1.]

[Footnote 15: Here. 4. 8. 19, Civa's names are Hara, Mrida,
Carva, Civa, Bhava, Mah[=a]deva, Ugra, Bhima, Pacupati,
Rudra, Cankara, Icana.]

[Footnote 16: These rites are described in 6. 4. 24 of the
_Brihad [=A]ranyaka Upanishad_ which consists both of
metaphysics and of ceremonial rules.]

[Footnote 17: Especially mentioned in the later Vasistha
(see below); on _m[=i]m[=a]ms[=a]_ a branch of the
Ved[=a]nta system see below.]

[Footnote 18: The commentator here (19. 12, cited by Buehler)
defines Ved[=a]nta as the part of the [=A]ranyakas which are
not Upanishads, that is, apparently as a local 'Veda-end'
(_veda-anta_), though this meaning is not admitted by some
scholars, who will see in _anta_ only the meaning 'goal,
aim.']

[Footnote 19: The Rudra (Civa) invocation at 26. 12 ff. is
interpolated, according to Buehler.]

[Footnote 20: Here there is plainly an allusion to the two
states of felicity of the Upanishads. Whether the law-giver
believes that the spirit will be united with Brahm[=a] or
simply live in his heaven he does not say.]

[Footnote 21: Gautama, too, is probably a Northerner. The
S[=u]tra, it should be observed, are not so indi