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X KÂNDA, 4 ADHYAYA, 2 BRÂHMANA, 18.
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11. He made himself ten bodies of seventy-two bricks each : he did not succeed. He did not develop elevenfold.
12. He made himself twelve bodies of sixty bricks each : he did not succeed. He did not develop either thirteenfold or fourteenfold.
13. He made himself fifteen bodies of forty-eight bricks each: he did not succeed.
14. He made himself sixteen bodies of forty-five bricks each: he did not succeed. He did not develop seventeenfold. .
15. He made himself eighteen bodies of forty bricks each : he did not succeed. He did not develop nineteenfold.
16. He made himself twenty bodies of thirty-six. bricks each: he did not succeed. He did not develop either twenty-one-fold, or twenty-two-fold, or twenty-three-fold.
17. He made himself twenty-four bodies of thirty bricks each. There he stopped, at the fifteenth ; and because he stopped at the fifteenth arrangement there are fifteen forms of the waxing, and fifteen of the waning (moon).
18. And because he made himself twenty-four bodies, therefore the year consists of twenty-four half-months. With these twenty-four bodies of thirty bricks each he had not developed (sufficiently). He saw the fifteen parts of the day, the muhûrtas?,
· Literally, shifting (about of the bricks of the allar), de velopment.
9 The day and night consists of thirty muhûrtas, a muhûrta being thus equal to about forty-eight minutes or four-fifths of an hour,
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