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to the Holy Fire. The Brahmanas aloue were entitled to this drink, 

 but if a Kshatriya wished to di-ink it, he was supplied with a 

 drink made of the shoots of the Nyagrodha or the Indian fig-tree 

 mixed with cui'ds, tlie Soma 

 Brahmana. 



heing 



never allowed to a non- 



