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of light its earth-fillings, oblations and fire-logs; Vậyu (the wind) is its space-filler ; thus this comes to make up the whole Agni, and the whole Agni comes to be the space-filler; and, verily, whosoever knows this, thus comes to be that whole (Agni) who is the space-filler
3. But, indeed, that Fire-altar also is the sky :the (heavenly) waters are its enclosing-stones, for even as a case 1 here is closed up so are these worlds (enclosed) within the waters; and the waters beyond these worlds are the enclosing-stones ;-the gods are the Yagushmati bricks; what food there is in that world is its Sadadohas; the Nakshatras (lunar mansions) are the earth-fillings, the oblations and the fire-logs; and Aditya (the sun) is the spacefiller ;-thus this comes to make up the whole Agni; and the whole Agni comes to be the space-filler ; and, verily, whosoever knows this, thus comes to be that whole (Agni) who is the space-filler.
4. But, indeed, that Fire-altar also is the sun :the regions are its enclosing-stones, and there are three hundred and sixty of these?, because three hundred and sixty regions encircle the sun on all sides ;—the rays are its Yagushmati bricks, for there are three hundred and sixty of these 3, and three hundred and sixty rays of the sun; and in that he establishes the Yagushmatis within the enclosingstones thereby he establishes the rays in the regions. And what is between the regions and the rays, is its Sadadohas; and what food there is in the regions and rays that is the earth-fillings, the oblations and
Or, as (the valves, or shells, of) a pod are closed up. ? See p. 354, note 2.
* See IX, 4, 3, 6.
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