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Indica. Reviewed by L. D. Barnett - 8. Das Śrautasūtra des Āpastamba. Achtes bis fünfzehntes Buch … übersetzt von W. Caland. (Verhandelingen der Kon. Akademie van Wetenschappen te Amsterdam: Afdeeling Letterkunde, nieuwe reeks, deel xxiv, No. 2.) 10½×7, 468 pp. Amsterdam: Koninklijke Akademie, 1924.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 March 2011

L. D. Barnett
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Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society , Volume 57 , Issue 3 , July 1925 , pp. 528 - 530
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1 A curious instance of “ amorality ” occurs in the present book, p. 25 (viii, vi, 21), where the officiant asks the lady of the house how many paramours she has (a similar catechism occurs in other rituals, and we believe that a call to confession of this kind is still made on certain occasions in the South, sometimes with remarkable results).

2 Incidentally we venture to suggest an answer to one of the problems left unsolved by the note on ix, xiii, 14 (p. 101). The “ Tendenz ” of the sūtra seems to be that the hōtṛ in this lustratory rite is a Bhārgava because Bhṛgu is traditionally connected with prāyaś-cittas and other “ white magic ”; cf. Bloomfield, Atharvaveda, p. 7 ff.