73.] [Footnote 7: The _Cata-patha Br[=a]hmana_ (or "Br[=a]mana of the hundred paths") II.2.2.

6; 4.3.14.] [Footnote 8: The chief family priest, it is said in the _Cat.Br_.II.4.4.

5, is a man of great influence.
Sometimes one priest becomes religious head of two clans (an extraordinary event, however; only one name is reported) and then how exalted is his position.

Probably, as in the later age of the drama, the chief priest often at the same time practically prime minister.

It is said in another part of the same book that although the whole earth is divine, yet it is the priest that makes holy the place of sacrifice (III.1.1.