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XIV KANDA, I ADHYAYA, I BRAHMANA, 16. 443
(mahân virah) has fallen:' therefrom the Mahavira pot (was named). And the vital sap which flowed from him they wiped up (sam-mrig) with their hands, whence the Samrag1.
12. The gods rushed forward to him, even as those eager to secure some gain (will do). Indra reached him first. He applied himself to him limb after limb, and encompassed him, and, in encompassing him, he became (possessed of) that glory of his. And, verily, he who knows this becomes (possessed of) that glory which Indra is (possessed of).
13. And Makha (sacrifice), indeed, is the same as Vishnu hence Indra became Makhavat (possessed of makha), since Makhavat is he who is mystically called Maghavat, for the gods love the mystic.
14. They gave to those ants the enjoyment of food; but, indeed, all food is water, for it is by moistening (the food) therewith that one eats here whatever one does eat.
15. This Vishnu, the (Soma-) sacrifice, they then divided amongst themselves into three parts: the Vasus (received) the morning-pressing, the Rudras the midday-pressing, and the Adityas the third pressing.
16. Agni (received) the morning-pressing, Indra
1 That is, emperor, or lord paramount, as the Pravargya is named, in the same way as the Soma-plant (and juice) is styled King.
'Cf. IV, 1, 3, 5. The construction is hardly so irregular as it is represented there.
That is, he enclosed him (in his own self), he took him in (gobbled him up).
I. e. 'the mighty (lord),' an epithet of Indra.
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