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¹ Cf. L. von Schroeder, I.L.C., pp. 127-167, 179-190. Sylvain *Lévi*, La doctrine du sacrifice dans les Brāhmaṇas (Bibliothèque de l'école des hautes études), Paris, 1898. H. Oldenberg, Vorwissenschaftliche Wissenschaft, die Weltanschauung der Brāhmaṇa-Texte, Göttingen, 1919, endeavours to do justice to the thoughts contained in the Brāhmaṇas. What Oldenberg calls "pre-scientific knowledge," should, however, be more correctly called "priestly pseudo-science." For the prose of the Brāhmaṇas, s. *Oldenberg*, Zur Geschichte der altindischen Prosa, pp. 13 ff., 20 ff.