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The Religions of India

CHAPTER IX
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But in the more popular feasts there are indications that this rule is often broken.

Compare Weber, _R[=a]jas[=u]ya_ p.

98.] [Footnote 14: For the relations of the different castes at this period, see Weber, in the tenth volume of the _Indische Studien_.] [Footnote 15: The Atharvan is not yet recognized as a Veda.] [Footnote 16: And even the pronunciation of a word or the accent is fateful.

The famous godly example of this is where Tvashtar, the artificer, in anger mispronounced _indra-catru_ as _indracatru,_ whereby the meaning was changed from 'conqueror of Indra' to 'Indra-conquered,' with unexpected result (_Cat.

Br._ I.6.3.


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