The formal divisions are (1) oblations of butter, milk, corn, etc.; (2) _soma_ sacrifices; (3) animal sacrifices, regarded as part of the first two.

The sacrifice of the new and full moon is to be repeated on each occasion for thirty years.

A _sattra_, session, is a long sacrifice which may last a year or more.] [Footnote 4: The latter are the metrical codes, a part of Smriti (sm[r.]ti).] [Footnote 5: The Five Paramount Sacrifices (Observances) are, according to Manu III.

70, study of the Veda (or teaching it); sacrifice to the Manes and to the gods; offerings of foods to ghosts (or spirits); and hospitality.] [Footnote 6: In the report of the Or.

Congress for 1880, p.
158 ff., Williams has a very interesting account of the daily rites of the modern orthodox Hindu ('_Rig Veda in Religious Service_').] [Footnote 7: We ignore here the later distinction between the Ved[=a]nta and S[=a]nkhya systems.