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SATAPATHA-BRAHMANA.
and breath indeed is (necessary) for this entire universe ;-'give all the light !'—that is, give the whole light;'— Våyu is thine over-lord,'-it is Vayu he thus makes the over-lord of that (layer and the air-world). Having settled it, he pronounces the Sadadohas over it: the significance of this has been explained.
5. He then lays down two Ritavyâ (seasonal? bricks) ;—the two seasonal onos being the same as the seasons, it is the seasons he thus places therein.[Vâg. S. XIV, 15), 'Nabha and Nabhasya, the two rainy seasons,' these are the names of those two (bricks): it is by their names he thus lays them down. There are two (such) bricks, for a season consists of two months. He settles them once only: he thereby makes (the two months) one season. He places them on avaka-plants and covers them
THE CENTRAL PART OF THE THIRD LAYER.
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1 These two Ritavyâs are placed beside (east of) the Visvagyotis, one north of the other, just over those of the first and second layers, that is to say, in the fifth space from the centre. In the present case, however, these bricks are only of half the usual thickness; two others, of similar size, being placed upon them.
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