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SATAPATHA-BRAHMANA.
there are ten fingers, ten toes, and nine vital airs: it is with these they then sang praises;-'the trees were created,'-the trees indeed were now created; Soma was the lord,'-Soma indeed was now the lord.
18. 'With thirty-one they sang praises,'there are ten fingers, ten toes, ten vital airs, and the trunk is the thirty-first: it is therewith they then sang praises;-'the creatures were created,'the creatures indeed were now created;-'the Yavas and Ayavas were the lords,'-the bright and dark fortnights indeed were now the lords.
19. 'With thirty-three they sang praises,'there are ten fingers, ten toes, ten vital airs, two feet, and the trunk is the thirty-third: it is therewith they then sang praises;-'the living beings lay quiet,'-all living beings now indeed lay quiet;— 'Pragâpati, the supreme, was the lord!' Pragâpati, the supreme, indeed was now the lord.
20. These, then, are seventeen bricks he lays down, the year, Pragâpati, is seventeenfold, he is the progenitor: it is thus by this seventeenfold year, by Pragâpati, the progenitor, that he caused these creatures to be generated. And what he generated, he created; and inasmuch as he created (srig), therefore they are called creations (srishti). Having created them, he made them enter his own self: and in like manner does the Sacrificer now cause these creatures to be generated by that seventeenfold year, by Pragâpati, the progenitor; and having created them, he makes them enter his own self'. On the
'That is, he makes them pass into his own power, makes them his own.
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