24), and speech is a divinity (Sarasvat[=i] is personified speech, _Cat.Br_.iii.1.4.

9, etc).
Truth is a religious as well as moral duty.

"This (All) is two-fold, there is no third; all is either truth or untruth; now truth alone is the gods (_satyam eva dev[=a]s_) and untruth is man."[51] Moreover, "one law the gods observe, truth" (_Cat.Br_.i.

1.1.

4; iii.3.2.