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‘Sāyaṇa, a scholar of a deep and wide-ranging knowledge’ : Renou 1947: 9 quotes Sāyaṇa’s words from his commentary on the Taittiriya Saṃhita: bhittisthānīyo yajurvedaś citrasthānīyāv itarau.—‘Stephen Lindquist is right that we should sometimes’: Stephen Lindquist ‘On Shattered Heads and Daft Robbers: Rethinking Sakalya in BĀU 3’, forthcoming, in Proceedings of the Fourth International Vedic Workshop at the University of Texas, Austin (see Preface, xxx).

‘He (Harold Bailey) once made a passing suggestion’ : 1984. ‘Vedic kṣumpa—and connected data.’ Joshi, S.D. (ed.), Amṛ**tadhārā: Prof. R.N. Dandekar Felicitation Volume. Delhi: 17–20.

‘Revere Memory!’ : CU 7.13.1 (smaram upāssva).

‘He looks like a great sage rather than an insignificant ascetic’ : different versions as described by T.M.P. Mahadevan 1957 from whose frontispiece Figure 14 has been reconstructed.—‘The Ritual Arena’: looks like a house: Renou 1939.

‘The central position of the Sadas is clear from Figure 16’: the southeastern quarter of the map is adapted from Witzel 1989: 242.

‘They mutter brief formulas referred to as yajus’ : Renou 1937, Brereton 2004 and Bhagwat 2004.

‘One of the most highly developed and famous Śrauta rituals’ : Staal, CV and Itti Ravi, 1983, I–II.

‘The following are taken from the Taittirıya Saṃhita, based upon Keith’s translation’ : Keith, A. B. 1914. The Veda of the Black Yajus School entitled Taittiriya Sanhita. I-II. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press: II, 289–99

‘The Rigveda tells us about Apala, a young woman’ : Hanns-Peter Schmidt. 1987, 1–29.—‘The majority were with women, but he … became the wife of “Bull Horse Man”’: the passage is recited during the Soma rituals and the Agnicayana (‘Subrahmaṇyā Chant’: Staal, CV and Itti Ravi 1983, I: 369, Plate 61) and has been discussed by Faddegon, Barend. 1951. Sudies on the Sāmaveda I. Amsterdam: North-Holland Publishing Company: 23–24. After referring to its ‘ritual use and crude popular contents, Faddegon discusses the birth of music, touching on Schopenhauer and Nietzsche.

‘May These Bricks, O Agni, be milch cows for me …’ : Staal, CV and Itti Ravi 1983, I: 508, Plate 80, 511.

‘The yajus recitation has a technical name: puroruc’ : Gonda, Jan. 1981. The Praügaśastra. Amsterdam: North-Holland Publishing Company. P. 63. E.R. Sreekrishna Sarma, ‘The Kauṣītaki Brāhmaṇa on the Atirātra’, in Staal, CV and Itti Ravi 1983, II: 679.