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⁷ Taittirīya Saṃhitā, ii. 5, 1, 2; v. 3, 12, 1; vi. 5, 10, 2; Kāṭhaka Saṃhitā, xxxi. 7 (where the Kapiṣṭhala has *brahma-jya*, 'oppressor of a Brahmin'); Taittirīya Brāhmaṇa, iii. 2, 8, 12. The Taittirīya Āraṇyaka, x. 38, declares that the slaying of a Brahmin alone is truly murder, and the Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa, xiii. 3, 1, 1 *et seq.*, states that the sin of murdering a Brahmin can be expiated only by the performance of an *Aśvamedha*, or 'horse sacrifice'—the *ne plus ultra* of human generosity to Brahmins. See also Nirukta, vi. 27. The later tradition also interprets *bhrūṇa* as Brahmin (see Saṅkara, cited in Weber, *Indische Studien*, i, 410, n.; Keith, *Śāṅkhāyana Āraṇyaka*, 30, n. 5; Konow, *Sāmavidhāna Brāhmaṇa*, 46, n. 1, and *cf.* Vasiṣṭha Dharma Sūtra, xx. 23).