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⁶ A. B. Keith: Chs. IV-V. (Rig Veda, etc) in the *Cambridge History of India* Vol. I. (1922); P.-E. Dumont: *L'Asvamedha* (Paris 1927), pp. ii, 2-4, 376. For the place of *aśwamedha* in the career of Empire-builders see the account of the Bhāra-Śivas etc. in K. P. Jayaswal: "The History of India" (150-350 A.C.) in the *Journal of the Bihar and Orissa Research Society* (Patna), May-June 1933. In regard to the continuity of Indian domestic and social rites and ceremonies from the most primitive times through the ages see the extensive chapter on "Vedic Ritual" in L. D. Barnett: *Antiquities of India* (London 1913).; cf. J. W. Hauer: *Der Vrātya* Vol. I. (Stuttgart 1927), pp. 223-240, 334-335 (The Vrātya as Aryan of the Non-Brahmanical Cult.).