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‘It begins to be visible in late Vedic works and in the Post-Vedic Dharma Sūtras … and … in the law book of Manu’ : Olivelle 1999 and 2004 are the most recent and reliable translations into English. For Dharma in Indic civilization from the Vedas onward: Olivelle, Patrick. (ed.), 2004, Special Issue of the Journal of Indian Philosophy 32/5–6: 421–870. #335. ‘Nor is there evidence for ‘free Aryans and subjugated indigenous people’: Kulke and Rothermund 1998: 34, 39.

‘Promote the bráhman …’ : RV 8.35, quoted and translated in a similar context in Gonda 1963a: 120.

‘Vedic society is much more complex than the simplistic triads that Dumézil suggest … the critique of John Brough’ : Dumézil 1958 and Brough 1959.

‘I am referring to the ‘Hymn to Puruṣa’ (RV 10.90)’ : during the Fourth International Vedic Workshop which I attended at the University of Texas, Austin (Preface, xxix), Stanley Insler told me that according to Paul Mus, RV 10.90 was the latest addition to the Rigveda; but his ideas were never published.

‘The Taittirīya Saṃhitā of the Black Yajurveda mentions kṣatṛ’ : Kane, Pandurang Vaman. 1930–1962. History of Dharmaśāstra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law). Vols. I–V in seven parts. Poona: Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute, Vol. II, Part I, p. 41.

‘Three stages of this process may be distinguished’: Rau 1997. ‘Rathakara’ : a more detailed study, Rathakāra Manasā, is forthcoming in the Proceedings of the Fourth International Vedic Workshop at the University of Texas, Austin (see Preface above page xxx). Earlier on Rathakara: Minkowski 1989a.

‘The term rathakāra, which becomes prominent later …’ : Kane. 1941. History of Dharmaśāstra. II, 1, p. 21.

‘Wilhem Rau tells us that during the Brāhmaṇa period, the rathakāra owned palatial residences’ : Rau 1957:112. ‘Hertha Krick makes the same mistakes as Kane’: 1982. Das Ritual der Feuergründung (Agnyādheya). Wien: Verlag der österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften: 44.

‘According to Manu’s post-Vedic book of laws, women are eligible to perform rites but without reciting the accompanying mantras’ : Manu 9.18, which seems to go further in Olivelle’s translation: ‘No rite is performed for women with the recitation of mantras.’