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 barley. Yam: was one of he mos nourishing kinds of food for he people. Agni proreefed he people and nourished them as yava did (i, 66, 2). Yava was sown wih the monsoon. The Adhwaryu rejoiees a its approaeh, like yaa al lhe fall of rainJ Wilh yava some prepsralions of eake were made whieh were sweet (t, 8). Yw so was used as fodder for d i mus have en very usel for e animus, nee i efteel on lhe eaifle is said  be e same as lhe suslenan given  man by Indra (ii, 68, 9). We ve laken here l lhose insiees where may have had me sei meaning': Bal om sve i ll  sn hs we shall no be justified if we llempl io resiel il eilher  rley or io any olher grin iu rliedar. Besides lhese here are various oer passes in lhe Rig Veda where lhe word yv os  lhe mosl gener sense of grain) If we lk now  he oher word, dl whioh es as uenfly as yava we find ha the se diety arises as to the exaet siifieanee of e word, so that the people of the time either did not distingsh one kind of grain om the others, or their distinetion is not properly refieeted in their nomenelate. The later seems  be pro- bable, sinee the disfiner words used may be taken  indiction of the different ains known aud eul- vad at the time. D in the g Veda is. used in the plural, exeept when the adjeetiv fo, is used. In more reeent Sanskrit it mes riee, and om its use in several passages in the this mning may be attributed to the word. But the dieulty is that in the later 8amhitas there is  entirely different word ,'ii, whieh snds for rieg. Its so ely mention 'in the next Samhis at the se te takes it probable tha riee was kno I fi, 8, 6; v, , 8; , , 6. I l, lAY, Bl; i, IM, 8; i, 1?6, ; , It, 11; , 8, i; , ?8, 10.