Asura-vidyā, ‘the science of the Asuras,’ the term used in the Śāṅkhāyana and Āśvalāyana1 Śrauta Sūtras as the equiva- lent of the term māyā employed in the Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa,2 clearly means ‘magic,’ as it is rendered by Professor Eggeling.3[Footnote] 1) x. 7. [Footnote] 2) xiii. 4, 3, 11. Cf. Śāṅkhāyana Śrauta Sūtra, x. 61, 2. 21. [Footnote] 3) Sacred Books of the East, 44, 368.