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KALPA SÚTRA.
melted butter, blazing away without producing any smoke. The flame was most pleasant to the sight, rising and falling alternately, a mass of fire coming out of itself and again returning into itself; a swift ever-flitting fire, with a flame rising aloft, extending itself on all sides, seeming as if it were about to bake the firmament*.
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अंवरं कञ्चदूपर्यंतं that is आकाशपचनममर्थं