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Br._ I.3.4.

12; IV.3.5.

1.] [Footnote 13: Interesting is the fact that only priests may eat sacrificial food and drink _soma_ at this period.

When even the king should drink _soma_, he is made to drink some transubstantiated liquor which, the priests inform him, has been 'made into _soma_' for him by magic, for the latter is too holy for any warrior really to drink (VII.

19; VIII.
20).


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