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as forms for his body, as space-fillers (Lokamprinās). as well as fifteen of the night; and inasmuch as they straightway (muhu) save (trai), they are (called) 'muhûrtâh'; and inasmuch as, whilst being small, they fill (půr) these worlds (or spaces, 'loka ') they are (called)' lokamprinah.'
19. That one (the sun) bakes everything here, by means of the days and nights, the half-moons, the months, the seasons, and the year; and this (Agni, the fire) bakes what is baked by that one : 'A baker of the baked (he is),' said Bharad våga of Agni ; for he bakes what has been baked by that (sun).'
20. In the year these (muhůrtas) amounted to ten thousand and eight hundred : he stopped at the ten thousand and eight hundred.
21. He then looked round over all existing things, and beheld all existing things in the threefold lore (the Veda), for therein is the body of all metres, of all stomas, of all vital airs, and of all the gods : this, indeed, exists, for it is immortal, and what is immortal exists; and this (contains also) that which is mortal.
22. Pragâpati bethought himself, “Truly, all existing things are in the threefold lore: well, then, I will construct for myself a body so as to contain the whole threefold lore.'
23. He arranged the Rik-verses into twelve thousand of Brihatis, for of that extent are the
1 The Lokamprinâ bricks contained in the whole fire-altar amount to as many as there are muhûrtas in the year, viz. 10,800; see X, 4, 3, 20.
2 The Brihatî verse, consisting of 36 syllables, this calculation makes the hymns of the Rig-veda to consist of 36 x 12,000= 432,000 syllables.
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