A History of Indian Literature v1.c8.s6.44
A History of Indian Literature v1.c8.s6.44
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v1.c8.s6.44
However, one of the chief causes of the fact that these prayers and sacrifice-formulæ often appear to us to be nothing but senseless conglomerations of words, is the identification and combination of things which have nothing at all to do with each other, so very popular in the Yajurveda. For instance, a cooking-pot is placed on the fire with the words :