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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 niake up the whole Agni; and the whole Agni comes to be the space-filler ; and, verily, whosoever knows this, comes to be thatwhole (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 Brihatî 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 1 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 Sudadohas, 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.
1 Vız. those required to make up the 756 Yagushmatis.
