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X KÅNDA, 5 ADHYÂYA, 4 BRÂHMANA, 13. 387
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11. 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.
12. But, indeed, that Fire-altar also is the body,the bones are its enclosing-stones, and there are three hundred and sixty of these, because there are three hundred and sixty bones in man; the marrow parts are the Yagushmati bricks, for there are three hundred and sixty of these, and three hundred and sixty parts of marrow in man; and those thirty-six bricks which are over, are the thirteenth month, the trunk, the vital air (of the altar),-in his body there are thirty parts", in his feet two, in his vital airs two, and in his head two,-as to there being two of these, it is because the head consists of two skull-bones. And that whereby these joints are held together is the Sadadohas; and those three whereby this body is covered—to wit, hair, skin, and flesh-are the earth-fillings; what he drinks is the oblations, and what he eats the fire-logs; and what is called the body, that is the space-filling (brick) :thus this comes to make up the whole Agni, and the whole Agni comes to be the spacefiller; and, verily, whosoever knows this, thus comes to be that whole (Agni) who is the space-filler.
13. 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.
See p. 383, note 3.
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