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Such a status, however, does not seem to be claimed for them and none of the texts suggest that this is so. The slaughter, therefore, remains an enigma. From the Brihadaranyaka, quoted A. Danielou, 'An Approach to Hindu Erotic Sculpture, Marg, Vol. II, No. i, 88.

After this last, Tirtha-yatra or the pilgrimage of the wise prince of the Kurus, the death of Jatasura, and the battle of the Yakshas. Then the story of Brihadaranyaka and then Aindradrumna. Then the story of 'Savitri' illustrating the great merit of connubial chastity. The next is called the marriage of Abhimanyu with the daughter of Virata.

After this last, Tirtha-yatra or the pilgrimage of the wise prince of the Kurus, the death of Jatasura, and the battle of the Yakshas. Then the story of Brihadaranyaka and then Aindradrumna. Then the story of 'Savitri' illustrating the great merit of connubial chastity. The next is called the marriage of Abhimanyu with the daughter of Virata.

This suspicion the Sutra undertakes to remove, in connexion with the Maitreyi-brahmana, in the Brihadaranyaka. There we read 'Verily, a husband is dear, not for the love of the husband, but for the love of the Self a husband is dear, and so on. Everything is dear, not for the love of everything, but for the love of the Self everything is dear.

This also explains why the Chandogya-text does not mention the rinsing at all, but merely the clothing of breath with water. Here terminates the adhikarana of 'the statement of what has to be done. In the book of the Vajasaneyaka, called Agnirahasya, we meet with a meditation on Brahman called Sandilyavidya; and there is also a Sandilya- vidya in the Brihadaranyaka.