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39 For the
mdnasatirthas, see Mahabharata, Anusasana Parva, 111.2-21. This
passage is quoted at the outset of the Tirthavivecana Kdanta of Laksmidhara
(K. V. Rangaswami Aiyangar, ed., Gaekwad's Oriental Series vol. 98 [Baroda:
Oriental Institute, 1942]), pp. 6-8, and also at the beginning of Misra, TZrtha
Prakasa, pp. 8-10. The Kasi Khanda of the Skanda Purlana (6.31-45) and the
Uttara Khandta of the Padma Purana (237.11-28) repeat the Mahabharata
version almost verbatim.
History of Religions 341
46 See Mircea
Eliade, Yoga: Immortality and Freedom, trans. Willard R. Trask,
Bollingen Series 61, 2d ed. (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1969),
pp. 227 ff.; see also Kd.A Mok?a Nirnaya.
47See, e.g.,
Aitareya Brdhmana 1.3.13 and Satapatha Brahmana 4.2.5.10. for
references to the sacrifice as a "ship."
4
Satapatha Brdhmana 11.1.6.6. and, similarly, when the gods are born,
11.1.6.15.
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