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The Religions of India

CHAPTER IX
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47).

Mitra and Varuna are, respectively, intelligence and will, priest and warrior; and while the former may exist without the latter, the latter cannot live without the former, 'but they are perfect only when they cooeperate' (_ib_.iv.1.4.

1).
Of the divine legends some are old, some new.

One speaks of the sacrifice as having been at first human, subsequently changing to beast sacrifice, eventually to a rice offering, which last now represents the original sacrificial animal, man.[34] Famous, too, is the legend of the flood and Father Manu's escape from it (_Cat.

Br_.
i.8.1.1 ff.).


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