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SATAPATHA-BRAHMANA.
metres, they are cattle ;—and as to cattle, they are (objects of) good fortune ;—and as to these (objects of) good fortune, they are yonder sun: he is that one to the south of them.
9. Now some lay down these (rows of bricks 1) immediately after the two containing the Trivrit, saying, “They are the tongue and the jaws: those fourteen are the jaws, and those six are the tongue.' Let him not do so : they cause a redundancy,-it would be just as if one were to put two other jaws to the already existing jaws, as if one were to put another tongue to the already existing tongue. That (brick) wherein the head is indeed (includes) the jaws and the tongue.
10. Now some lay down (these bricks) in the intermediate (south-eastern) space of it (the altar) ?, saying, 'This is the sun: we thus place yonder sun in that direction. Let him not do so : surely there are those other rites 3 by which he places him in that (direction).
11. Some, again, lay them down on the right
1 Viz. the row of fourteen bricks lying behind the two front bricks, and the row of six bricks again placed behind these. It will be remembered that only the northern one of the two front bricks was laid down at first, and that then three others were placed in the different directions, after which the row of fourteen was laid down behind the front one; and similarly the laying down of the second front brick was separated from that of the second row by the laying down of three other bricks in the different quarters.
In that case, the two shank-sized bricks are laid down in the south-east corner, and the rows of smaller bricks are placed to the north of them. See Katy. Srautas. XIV, 10, 4.
See, for instance, VI, 7, 3, 9 where the Ukhya Agni, representing the sun, is held up by the Agnikit sacrificer) in the south-easterly direction. The south-east corner is sacred to Agni.
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