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SATAPATHA-BRAHMANA.
Vâg. S. XIV, 1), “Thou art firmly-founded, firmly-seated, firm!' for what is steadly and settled, that is firm. Now that world was to their minds, as it were, unfirm and unsettled: having thereby made it firm, steady, they (the Asvins) went on laying down (bricks).-Seat thee fitly in thy firm seat!'—that is, 'Seat thee fitly in thy steady seat;'-'enjoying the first appearance of the Ukhya,'—the Ukhya, doubtless, is this Agni ; and that first layer is indeed his first appearance: thus, 'enjoying that.'-'May the Asvins, the Adhvaryus, settle you here!' for the Asvins, as Adhvaryus, did lay down (this brick).
and northern ones run from south to north. All the five bricks of each class, beginning with the asvin is, are laid down at the same time, proceeding again in sunwise fashion (east, south, &c.); the
THE CENTRAL PART OF THE SECOND LAYER.
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order of the procedure being only interrupted by the two Rita vya bricks being laid down, immediately after the placing of the five âsvinî, exactly over the two ritavyâs of the first layer, that is to say in the fifth (easterly) space from the centre, north and south of the spine. The only other special bricks of the second layer are nineteen va yasyâs placed at the four ends of the two spines, viz. four in the east, and five in each of the other quarters.
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