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‡ Taitt. Sam. I. 7. 3. 1 ; “Secretly offering is made to one set of gods, openly to another. The gods who receive offering secretly, he thus offers to them in sacrifice; in that he brings the Anvāhārya mess (*i.e.* a mess of food cooked with rice given to the priests as a Dakṣiṇā)—the Brāhmaṇas are the gods openly—them he verily delights.” H. O. R. Vol. XVIII. p. 100. Cf. Maitr. Sam. I. 4. 6. and Kauśika Sūtra VI. 26-27.