[The Religions of India by Edward Washburn Hopkins]@TWC D-Link bookThe Religions of India CHAPTER VI 63/64
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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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