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¹ Sarkar further observes (*ibid*, pp. 40, 39, note 9) that ‘from these indications, and from the recognition of round forms in the construction of altars and *śmaśāna* (funerary structures) in the later *saṁhitās* (*Taitt. Sam.*, V, 4, 11), it would appear that the antagonism to round and stone structures displayed by the *Satapatha Brāhmaṇa* is a later development in the seventh century B. C., very likely due to the growing estrangement between the *prāchya* (eastern) and midland religions and philosophical doctrines in the Buddhistic reformation (arrangement of round and star-shaped bricks in a circle).’

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Taittirīyasaṃhitā — Sanskrit