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SATAPATHA-BRAHMANA.
Sadadohas; and the food which is in the metres is the earth-fillings, the oblations, and the fire-logs; and what is called 'metres,' that is the spacefilling (brick) :—thus this comes to make up the whole Agni; and the whole Agni comes to be the space-filler ; and, verily, whosoever knows this, comes to be that whole (Agni) who is the space-filler.
9. Now, these (amount to) twenty-one Brihatis; and—the heavenly world being the twenty-one-fold and the Brihati-this (altar) thus comes to be equal to the heavenly world, and to the twenty-one-fold Stoma and the Brihati metre.
10. But, indeed, that Fire-altar also is the Year,— : the nights are its enclosing-stones, and there are three hundred and sixty of these, because there are three hundred and sixty nights in the year; and the days are its Yagushmati bricks, for there are three hundred and sixty of these, and three hundred and sixty days in the year; and those thirty-six bricks which are over are the thirteenth month, the body (of the year and the altar), the half-months and months, -(there being) twenty-four half-months, and twelve months. And what there is between day and night that is the Sadadohas; and what food there is in the days and nights is the earthfillings, the oblations, and the fire-logs; and what is called days and nights' that constitutes the space-filling (brick) :-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.
· Viz. those required to make up the 756 Yagushmatis.
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