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tion, (for) over him he was built up 1, on him he was built up from out of his own self he thus fashioned him, from out of his own self he generated him.
29. Now when he (the Sacrificer), being about to build an altar, undergoes the initiation-rite,-even as Pragâpati poured his own self, as seed, into the fire-pan as the womb,-so does he pour into the firepan, as seed into the womb, his own self composed of the metres, stomas, vital airs, and deities. In the course of a half-moon, his first body is made up, in a further (half-moon) the next (body), in a further one the next,-in a year he is made up whole and complete.
30. And whenever he lays down an enclosingstone, he lays down a night, and along with that fifteen inuhurtas, and along with the muhûrtas fifteen eighties (of syllables). And whenever he lays down a Yagushmati (brick), he lays down a day, and along with that fifteen muhûrtas, and along with the. muhûrtas fifteen eighties (of syllables of the sacred texts). In this manner he puts this threefold lore into his own self, and makes it his own; and in this very (performance) he becomes the body of all existing things, (a body) composed of the metres, stomas, vital airs, and deities; and having become composed of all that, he ascends upwards.
31. And he who shines yonder is his foundation, for over him he is built up, on him he is built up: from out of his own self he thus fashions him, from out of his own self he generates him. And when
1 Viz. inasmuch as the round gold plate, representing the sun, was laid down in the centre of the altar-site, before the first layer was built. Sâyana.
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