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Rules for a repeated Agnikayana . Propitiatory hymn to Indra and Agni.
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The Mystery of the Fire-altar .
The triad—Fire-altar, Mahad uktham, and Mahavrata . 281 Parimad sâmans . . . . . . .
288 Pragâpati made immortal.
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290 Layers of altar partly mortal and partly immortal . 292 Agnikayana includes all sacrifices .
296 Contraction and expansion of wings of altar (bird) . 300 Dimensions of Fire-altar . . . . . Sevenfold and hundred and onefold altars.
313 Time for building the altar.
316 Number of Upasad-days. .
317 Pragậpati, the Altar and the Year (Time). . . 321 The metres in relation to Pragâpati . Dhîra Sataparneya and Mahâsâla Gâbâla on the
knowledge of Agni . . . . . Aruni on the mystery of the Arka
. . 333 Mystic import of the Yagus . . . . . . 336 The sacred fire, the Arka, the one Akshara, the
great Brahman . . . . . . 343 Pragâpati, the year, is Agni, and King Soma, the moon . . .
. 349 Trayi vidya (the Vedas) . ..
: 352 Pragâpati, the year, as Death
· 356 The Sacrificer is Pragâpati, and immortal
357 Numbers of bricks in layers Session of a thousand years
361 Mystic import of Agni, the Fire-altar.
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363 The gold plate and gold man as sun and the man in
the sun . . . . . . . . 366 Death, the man in the right eye, and the man in the sun 371 Mind, the ultimate cause of the universe . . . 375 The Fire-altar, the universe . . . . . 381 Kusti Vágasravasa on the construction of the altar . 390 Asvapati Kaikeya on the nature of Vaisvânara · 393
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