The Religion and Philosophy of the Veda and Upanishads v1.c27.s4.3

v1.c27.s4.3

¹ Farnell, *Greece and Babylon*, pp. 241 ff. A good example of the common meal as a means of producing harmony is given in Kauç. xii. 8, 9. The same Sūtra (xiii. 6) prescribes a magic rite, in which portions of the members of some animals, lion, tiger, he-goat, ram, bull, a warrior and a Brahman student are to be eaten, to attain the possession of certain qualities; there is, of course, no totemism in all this; Henry, *La magie dans l’ Inde antique*, pp. xxviii, 87, 95.