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therefore one should appoint only one who knows thus to perform 

 the expiation. 12. They say this: 'Inasmuch as the hotr's work is 

 performed by means of the re, and the adhvaryu's work by means 

 of the yajus, and the udgatr's work by means of the saman, now 

 then by what means is the brahman-priest's work performed ? ' He 

 should say : ' By means of this threefold knowledge.' And therefore 

 one should appoint him the brahman-priest whom one considers 

 the ])est brahman-priest. And truly he is a brahman-priest who 

 knows thus. 



3. Notes. 



JB. i. 357 is verbatim like JUB. iii. 15. 4-9 with two exceptions 

 only, viz. JUB. iii. 15. 4 reads pradaghisyanta for JB. i. 357. 2 pra- 

 darpisyanta, and JUB. iii. 15. 9. reads tad eva tad dha vai for JB. 

 i. 357. 7 tad etad dha vai. 



AB. V. 32. 1 corresponds in substance with JB. i. 357. 1 and 

 3-6 ; it has nothing parallel to JB. i. 357. 2, but adds that from the 

 three vyahrtis in turn the syllable oih was extracted and apportions 

 the Vedas to their respective priests. 



(j^B. xi. 5. 8. 1-4 (first half) corresponds in sul^stance with JB. i. 

 357. 1-6 ; QB. xi. 5. 8. 4 (second half) contains the apportionment 

 of the Vedas to their respective priests parallel to AB. v. 32. 3. 



SB. i. 5. 7 is very concise and, reversing slightly the order of 

 creation, makes Prajapati first create the three Vedas, from them 

 he extracts the vyahrtis, and these, in turn, become the three worlds. 



Chand. Up. iv. 17. 1-3 substantially corresponds to JB. i. 357. 

 1 and 3-6. There is no exact parallel to JB. i. 357. 7 = JUB. iii. 

 15. 9 in the other texts. 



2. pratistham : Cf. ^B. vii. 1. 2. 1 (end), 2, 3, 8. 



pradarpisyante : The Petersburg dictionaries do not give any finite 

 forms of the "V^drp -f pra nor the meaning of ' stumble ' to the root 

 drp. The sense of ' stumble ' which I have given here to the com- 

 pound verb pra-drp might also be suggested for the simple root drp 

 in QB. iii. 2. 1. 9 : atha yad agra eva madhya upavi^ed ya enarii 

 tatra 'nusthya hared drapsyati va pra va patisyati 'ti tatha hai 'va 

 syat. Eggeling translates this : ' Were he, on the other hand, to 

 sit down at once in the middle (of the skin) and were any one 

 there to curse him, saying, " He shall either become demented or 

 fall down headlong, " then that would indeed come to pass.' But 



