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Rules for a repeated Agnikayana Propitiatory hymn to Indra and Agni.
TENTH KANDA.
The Mystery of the Fire-altar
The triad-Fire-altar, Mahad uktham, and Mahâvrata.
Parimâd sâmans
Pragâpati made immortal
Layers of altar partly mortal and partly immortal. Agnikayana includes all sacrifices
Contraction and expansion of wings of altar (bird)
Dimensions of Fire-altar
Sevenfold and hundred and onefold altars
Time for building the altar.
Number of Upasad-days
Pragâpati, the Altar and the Year (Time)
The metres in relation to Pragâpati
Dhira Sataparneya and Mahâsâla Gâbâla on the
knowledge of Agni
Âruni on the mystery of the Arka
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Mystic import of the Yagus
The sacred fire, the Arka, the one Akshara, the great Brahman
Pragapati, the year, is Agni, and King Soma, the
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moon
Trayî vidyâ (the Vedas)
Pragâpati, the year, as Death
The Sacrificer is Pragâpati, and immortal
Numbers of bricks in layers
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The Fire-altar, the universe
Kusri Vâgasravasa on the construction of the altar Asvapati Kaikeya on the nature of Vaisvânara
Session of a thousand years Mystic import of Agni, the Fire-altar
The gold plate and gold man as sun and the man in the sun
Digitized by
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Death, the man in the right eye, and the man in the sun Mind, the ultimate cause of the universe
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