50), was to teach that gods and men depended on the will of the wise men who knew how properly to conduct a sacrifice, the key-note of religious pride in the Brahmanic period.
Indra depends on the sacrificial _soma_ to accomplish his great works.
The gods first got power through the sacrificial fire and _soma_.[56] That images of the gods were supposed to be powerful may be inferred from the late verses, "who buys this Indra," etc.

(above), but allusions to idolatry are elsewhere extremely doubtful.[57] * * * * * FOOTNOTES: [Footnote 1: Compare T[=a]itt.

S.VII.

4.2.1.The gods win immortality by means of 'sacrifice' in this later priest-ridden period.] [Footnote 2: Ludwig (IV.p.

134) wrongly understands a hell here.] [Footnote 3: 'Yama's seat' is here what it is in the epic, not a chapel (Pischel), but a home.] [Footnote 4: This may mean 'to Yama (and) to death.' In the Atharva Veda, V.24.