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SATAPATHA-BRAHMANA.
body these (formed), this is why he places them in this (layer).
9. There are here four seasonal (bricks) he lays down in the middlemost layer; and two in each of the other layers,-animals (cattle) are four-footed, and the middlemost layer is the air: he thus places animals in the air, and hence there are animals that have their abode in the air.
10. And, again, why there are four,-animals are four-footed, and animals are food; and the middlemost layer is the middle (of Agni's body): he thus puts food in the middle.
11. And, again, why there are four, antariksha ' (air) consists of four syllables, and the other layers (kiti) consist of two syllables; hence as much as the air consists of, so much he makes it in laying it down.
12. And, again, why there are four, this Agni (altar), doubtless, is an animal: he thus makes the animal biggest towards the middle; whence an animal is biggest towards the middle.
13. There are here four Ritavyâs, the Visvagyotis being the fifth, and five Disyâs,—this makes ten: the Virâg consists of ten syllables, and the Virâg is food, and the middlemost layer is the middle;-he thus puts food in the middle (of the body). He lays them down so as not to be separated from the naturally-perforated one', for the naturally-perforated one is the vital air: he thus places the food so as not to be separated from the vital air. Subsequently (to the central brick) he lays them down: sub
That is to say, the three sets of bricks are not separated by any others from the Svayamâtrinnâ.
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