Hindu Polity: A Constitutional History of India in Hindu Times c36.17

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¹ *Satapatha Brāhmaṇa* V. 3. 1. Cf. also Taittirīya Br. 1. 7. 3. (Poona Ed. I pp. 308-310) and Taittirīya Saṁhitā 1. 8 9. (Mysore Ed. I, pp. 146-49). The text says that the ratnins are eleven ( एकादश रत्नानि ) But the *havi* is offered at twelve places. Evidently the offering at his own house is not counted (the school of *Krishna Yajurveda* does not prescribe an offering at the king-elect's house) or the last two might have been treated as entitled to one offering ointly.