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SATAPATHA-BRAHMANA.
Vâg. S. XIV, 1), “Thou art firmly-founded, firmly-seated, firml' for what is steady 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 thce fitly in thy firm seat!'-that is, 'Scat thee fitly in thy stcady 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).
ancl northern ones run from south to north. All the five bricks of each class, beginning with the â svinis, arc 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 Ritavyâ bricks being laid down, immediately after the placing of the five âsvini, exactly over the two ratavyâs 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 vayasyâs placed at the four ends of the two spines, viz. four in the east, and five in each of the other quarters.
