The Religion and Philosophy of the Veda and Upanishads v2.c30.s5.4

v2.c30.s5.4

⁴ Above, Part III, Chap. 18, § 3. For the two figures Hubert and Mauss (*Année sociol.* ii. 111) adopt the view that they represent the spirit of barley as fertilizing and fertilized, which is eaten in the rite, and that the ram is ‘Varuṇa visible’, but this is quite impossible, or a mere mistranslation of ÇB. ii. 5. 2. 16.