Vedic Index of Names and Subjects v2.c4.122

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³³ Taittiriya Saṃhitā, iii. 5, 2, 1. This point is not in the parallel versions, Kāṭhaka Saṃhitā, xxxvii. 17 (*but cf.* xxvii. 4: *brahma-purohitaṃ kṣatram*, unless this means ‘the Kṣatra is inferior to the Brahma’); Pañcaviṃśa Brāhmaṇa, xv. 5, 24, and *cf.* Gopatha Brāhmaṇa, ii. 2, 13. The Atharvan literature (Bloomfield, *Hymns of the Atharvaveda*, lx, lxi) requires a follower of that Veda to act as Brahman, and the spells of the Atharvan are, in fact, closely allied to the spells of the Purohita as represented in the Aitareya Brāhmaṇa, viii. 24-28. *Cf.* Macdonell, *Sanskrit Literature*, 193, 195.