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both the belly and the womb north of the naturallyperforated one ?; for that naturally-perforated one, indeed, is what this vital air in the middle (of the body) is: he thus places the belly and the womb on both sides of that (central) vital air, and hence the belly and the womb are on both sides of that central vital air.
17. The Dvipadâs are the feet (the stand);—and as to its being Dvipadas (verses of two feet), it is because the feet are a pair. There are three (such verses), for a stand 2 (tripod) is threefold. He lays them down at the back, for the feet are at the back (of the body).
18. That body of his (Agni) is well-made ;-and, indeed, for whomsoever they thus make that body of his so as to be well-made, he becomes possessed of that body of his as a well-made one; but for whomsoever they make it otherwise than that, for him they make that body of his so as to be ill-made, and he becomes possessed of an ill-made body.
19. It is with reference to this that these two sâma-nidhanas (finales of sâman-hymns) are uttered, - The light (is) in the highest heaven of the gods,' and, “The gods (are) in the highest heaven of the
According to VII, 5, 1, 38, the fire-pan is supposed to represent the belly, and the mortar the yoni; and these two were, in the first layer, placed north of the svayam-atrinnâ, or naturally-perforated brick, so as to leave the space of a full brick between them and that central brick of the layer; cf. VII, 5, 1, 13. In the sketch of the central part of the first layer (p. 17), the two northernmost bricks, marked p, represent the fire-pan and mortar.
? That is, the feet and back part of the body, or the tail, the latter, in a sitting bird, forming, as it were, a third foot or support to the body.
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