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30. Interestingly where \*tyāga\* occurs in the \*Ṛgveda\*, it is the giving up of his life by the warrior in (sacrificial) battle (4. 24. 3).  
31. On the chief meritorious act of each of the four \*yugas\*, see \*Manu\* 1. 85–86; also Robert Lingat, “Time and the Dharma,” \*Contributions to Indian Sociology\* 6 (1962): 7–16.  
32. \*Manu\* 3. 64, 153; 4. 84–85, 218. See above, chapter 2, section 9.  
33. See above, chapter 6, section 8.  
34. \*ŚB\* 6. 8. 1. 4.  
35. Jaspers, \*Vom Ursprungund Zeil\*, 33.  
36. \*ŚB\* 1. 4. 1. 10–17.  
37. \*TB\* 1. 8. 4. 1–2; \*ŚB\* 5. 5. 2. 5. See W. Rau, \*Staat und Gesellschaft im alten Indien\* (Wiesbaden, 1957), 15. On the \*vrātya\* expeditions of the “sons of the Kurubrahmans,” \*Staat und Gesellschaft\*, see also \*BaudhŚS\* 18. 26: 374. 8.  
38. Rau, \*Staat und Gesellschaft\*, 51–54.  
39. On \*yoga\* (yoking) and \*kṣemya\*, see H. Oertel, \*The Syntax of Cases\* (heidelberg, 1926), 223–27 (Excursus on . . . \*yogakṣema\*); also J. C. Heesterman, “Householder and Wanderer,” in \*Way of Life; Essays in Honour of Louis Dumont\*, ed. T. N. Madan (New Delhi, 1982), 251–71.  
40. \*AB\* 2. 37. 1; \*KB\* 7. 7.  
41. On the geographical and historical context of Zarathustra and on his reform of sacrifice, see K. Rudolph, “Zarathustra: Prieter und Prophet,” \*Numen\* 8 (1961): 81–116 (reprinted in \*Zarathustra\*, ed. B. Schlerath \[Darmstadt, 1970\], 270–313).  
42. Jaspers, \*Vom Ursprung und Zeil\*, 43.

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## Linked texts (7)

- [Baudhāyanaśrautasūtra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.srauta.baudhayana.18.26) — Baudhāyana, Sanskrit
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- [Taittirīyabrāhmaṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.taittiriya.1.8.4.1) — Sanskrit
- [Aitareyabrāhmaṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.aitreya.2.37) — Mahidāsa Aitareya, Sanskrit
- [Ṛgvedasaṃhitā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.samhita.rg.4.24.3) — Sanskrit
- [Śatapathabrāhmaṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.satapatha.6.8.1.4) — Yājñavalkya & Śāṇḍilya (Vedic teacher), Sanskrit

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