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Rules for a repeated Agnikayana Propitiatory hymn to Indra and Agni .
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TENTH KANDA.
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The Mystery of the Fire-altar . . . . . . 281
The triad-Fire-altar, Mahad uktham, and Mahâvrata . 281 Parimad samans . . . . .
288 Pragâpati made immortal.
290 Layers of altar partly mortal and partly immortal . . 292 Agnikayana includes all sacrifices . Contraction and expansion of wings of altar (bird) 300 Dimensions of Fire-altar . .
. 305 Sevenfold and hundred and onefold altars . 313 Time for building the altar.
316 Number of Upasad-days
317 Pragâpatı, the Altai and the Year (Time). . . 321 The metres in ielation to Pragâpati . . . . 327 Dhîra Sâtaparneya and Mahâsâla Gâbâla on the
knowledge of Agni . . . . . . 331 Aruni on the mystery of the Arka .
· 333 Mystic import of the Yagus . . . . . The sacred fire, the Arka, the one Akshara, the great Brahman. . .
. . . 343 Pragậpati, the year, is Agni, and King Soma, the moon . .
. 349 Trayî vidyâ (the Vedas) .
352 Pragâpati, the year, as Death . . . . . 356 The Sacrificer is Pragâpati, and immortal Numbers of bricks in layers . . . .. Session of a thousand years . . . . . 361 Mystic import of Agni, the Fire-altar . . . . 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 Kusri Vângasravasa on the construction of the altar Asvapati Kaikeya on the nature of Vaisvânara
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