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SATAPATHA-BRÂHMANA.
15. For the enclosing-stones are the bones, and the Sadadohas is the breath; and there is no breath in the bones. With one and the same formula he lays down many bricks !, for of one and the same form are the waters; and as to there being many enclosing-stones, it is because there are many waters.
16. The enclosing-stones, then, are the womb; the saline earth is the amnion, and the sand is the seed. The enclosing-stones are outside, and the saline earth is inside ; for the womb is outside, and the amnion inside. The saline earth is outside, and the sand inside ; for the amnion is outside, and the seed inside. He who is born is born from these : it is from them that he thus causes him (Agni) to be born.
17. Thereon he now builds it (the hearth): he
GÂRHAPATYA HEARTH. thereby fashions that infused seed; and hence the infused seed is fashioned in the womb.
see note to paragraph 31), are the so-called “necessary rites, because they have as a rule to be performed on each (special) brick, when it has been laid down in building up the fire-altar.
1 Viz. the so-called 'lokamprina' (or space-filling bricks), for which see p. 153, note.
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