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The Religions of India

CHAPTER VI
63/64

cit._ p.

36).
The sacrifice of animals, cattle, horses, goats, is customary; that of man, legendary; but it is implied in X.
18.8 (Hillebrandt, ZDMG.

Xl p.

708), and is ritualized in the next period (below).] [Footnote 57: Phallic worship may be alluded to in that of the 'tail-gods,' as Garbe thinks, but it is deprecated.

One verse, however, which seems to have crept in by mistake, is apparently due to phallic influence (VIII.1.


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