Vaman Shivram Apte

"V.M. Apte strikes a neutral note: "Whether fetishism is to be read into a reference to an image of Indra and whether the worship of idols or images of gods was known to the Rigveda, are points on which no certain conclusions can be reached. ""

"The three-fold nature of Agni is a favourite topic with RV poets: his heads, bodies, stations, splendours and births are each three-fold. He is the earliest representative of the famous Indian trinity... ""

"Clothes were generally woven of sheepís wool ... The dress in this period seems to have consisted of three garments ñ an under-garment (nivi), a garment proper (Vasas) and an over-garment (Adhi-vasas), like a mantle or cloak. The Satapatha Brahmana describes the set of sacrificial garments as consisting of silk under-garment (Tarpya), a garment of undyed wool, an over-garment and a turban (Ushnisa). A royal head-gear or turban is worn at the Rajasuya and Vajapeya ceremonies by the king. The turban of the Vratya is referred to. The sandal or shoe was made of boar-skin ... Skins were used as clothing."

"The milch-cow (Dhenu) is contrasted with the bull, and there are special terms for cows, oxens and calves of different ages, for cows barren or otherwise and in various stages of growth and motherhood, as well as for a cow with a calf substituted for one of her own which had died (Apte in Majumdar 1951: 460)"