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INDEX TO PARTS III, IV, AND V.
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fingers, V, 75; the different
fingers and their joints, 161. finger-breadth, the lowest measure,
IV, 300; thereby fire-altar
measured, 300. fire, when it goes out it is wafted up
in the wind, IV, 333; Fire evolved from Work, 380; is the womb of the sacrifice, V, 3; is one of the six doors to the Brahman, 66; sacrificial fires only desire flesh of victims and the Sacrificer, 119; four kinds of fires, (three worlds and the regions; Agni, Vayu, Aditya, Kandramas), 127; there is a fire in every piece of wood, 187; circumambient fire shuts out the Asuras, 271; carried round
victims, 307. fire-altar (agni); the way in which
it is mounted (like a horse), III, 361; building of, 363 seq. ; a four-footed animal, iv, 19; con- traction and expansion (of animal's body), 20 seq.; of eagle-build, 31; is the year and the three worlds, 29; constructed so as to extend (fly) eastwards, 115; Agni its head, the earth its right, the sky its left wing, Vâyu (the air, vital air) its body, the moon its tail, the sun its heart, 178-80; the Sacrificer's divine body, 216, 256; the body of all the gods, 256; substitutes for complete fire-altars at repeated Soma- sacrifices, 271; is an ocean of Yagus, 778; Fire-altar, Mahå- vrata and Mabad uktham are the Sacrificer's divine, immortal body, 379; is a bird-like body, 285; is the earth, the mind, the trunk, the head, 286; is measured by finger-breadths, 300; the sevenfold, 306; for this a vedi of ninety steps, 308; different forms of, from sevenfold to one hundred and onefold (the latter of which is to be fourteen times that of the former), 309 seq.; by building a smaller fire-altar, one curtails Pragàpati, and by one larger than the largest one exceeds
the universe, 312; the hundred and onefold contains all objects of desire, is the year, and the sun, 313; it is equal to the sevenfold one, 314; is built between the two performances of the upasads, 316; each layer of bricks and earth takes (or represents) a month to build, 318; the hundred and onefold the normal one (?), 321 seq.; it gains the immortal light, 323; it is a sevenfold one by its layers, 324; the fire (altar) is fivefold (by food, drink, excellence, light, and immortality), 326; is the food prepared for Pragapati and becomes the body itself, .341; is the man in the sun, 366; is the earth, air, sky, the sun, the nakshatras, the metres, the year, the body, all beings and all gods,
381-390. firebrand, belongs to Rudra, V, 301. fire-pan. See ukha. firmament (naka), is the heavenly
world above the Virág (layer), IV, 93, 100; is the regions, 100; in the world of righteousness (sukrita) above the third luminous back of the sky, 123; the heavenly world, the back of the sky, 198; the heavenly world beyond the highest fire-altar,
250, 304. first-fruits, offering of. See Agraya
weshti. fivefold, is the animal sacrifice, V,125;
the Asvamedha becomes so, 308. flax, forms amnion of Agni's womb,
Alax, forms 53; foul sturinginitiation of
flesh, not to be eaten during initiation,
III, 185; of fat person fat, of lean lean, V, 20; is the best
kind of food, 119. foam, produced from water, III,
147, 157 food, kinds of, given to Sacrificer,
III, 36; one kind to be renounced by him, 37; satisfies if proportionate to body, 260, 330; IV, 189; to food the body is bound by the vital airs, III, 270; is taken in from the front (mouth) backward, 401; the resort of the waters, 416; the
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