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VII KÂNDA, 5 ADHYAYA, 2 BRÂHMANA, 62. 417
By the Trishtubh metre I settle thee!-By the Gagatimetre I settle thee!-By the Anushtubh metre I settle thee!-By the Pankti metre I settle thee!' Whatever water flowed from those metres of his, that he now (by these formulas) puts back into him; and those metres themselves he thereby restores to him.
62. These (bricks) are fingers (and toes) : he puts them on all sides 1, for these fingers (and toes) are on all sides; he puts them at the ends, for these fingers (and toes) are at the ends ; in four sets he puts them on, for these fingers (and toes) are in four sets ; five he puts on each time, for there are five fingers (or toes) at each (limb); separately he puts them on, for separate are these fingers (and toes); only once he'settles' each (set): he thereby makes (each set) one and the same, whence they have a common connecting-link.
1 The four sets of bricks are placed in the middle of the four sides of the square 'body' of the altar-site, or at the ends of the two spines' intersecting each other.
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