^74:2 Burnouf rightly preferred pratishthasi to pratishtho 'si, though the commentary on the corresponding passage of the Brihadaranyaka seems to favour tatpratishtho 'si.

^74:3 Ana, breather, more general than pra-ana = prana, forth-breather, and the other more specified names of breath.

^74:4 They rinse the mouth before and after every meal.

^74:5 We expect, 'He who knows this' instead of prana, but as prana may apply to every individual prana, the usual finishing sentence was possibly dropt on purpose.

^75:1 The oblation here described is called mantha, a mortar, or what is pounded in a mortar, i. e. barley stirred in some kind of gravy. See Gaim. N. M. V. P. 406.

^75:2 Not the real diksha, which is a preparatory rite for great sacrifices, but penance, truthfulness, abstinence, which take the place of diksha with those who live in the forest and devote themselves to upasana, meditative worship.

^75:3 What is here called sampatam avanayati is the same as samsravam avanayati in the Brih. Ar. VI, 3, 2. The commentator says: Sruvavalepanam agyam mantham samsravayati.

^76:1 Cf. Brih. Ar. I, 1, 3, 22.