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'Thou art the portion of Agni', (with these words he puts down) on the east; Agni is the beginning of
the sacrifice, consecration is the beginning of the sacrifice, holy power is the beginning of the
sacrifice, the threefold is the beginning of the sacrifice; verily on the east he establishes the
beginning of the sacrifice. 'Thou art the portion of them that gaze on men', (with these words he
puts down) on the south; those that gaze on men are the learned, Dhatr is food; verily on birth he
gives him food; therefore on birth he eats food. 'The birthplace saved, the seventeenfold Stoma', he
says; the birthplace is food [1], the seventeen fold is food; verily he places food on the south;
therefore with the right food is eaten. 'Thou art the portion of Mitra', (with these words he puts
down) on the west; Mitra is expiration, Varuna inspiration; verily he confers on him expiration and
inspiration. 'The rain from the sky, the winds saved, the twenty-onefold Stoma', he says; the twentyonefold
is support, (verily it serves) for support. 'Thou art the portion of Indra', (with these words he
puts down) on the north; Indra is force, Visnu, is force, the lordly power is force, the fifteenfold is
force [2]; verily on the north he places force; therefore he that advances to the north is victorious.
'Thou art the portion of the Vasus', (with these words) he put down on the east; the Vasus are the
beginning of the sacrifice, the Rudras are the beginning of the sacrifice, the twenty-fourfold is the
beginning of the sacrifice; verily on the east he establishes the beginning of the sacrifice. 'Thou art
the portion of the Adityas', (with these words he puts down) on the south; the Adityas are food, the
Maruts are food, embryos are food, the twenty-fivefold is food; verily be places food on the south;
therefore with the right food is eaten. 'Thou art the portion of Aditi' [3], (with these words he puts
down) on the west; Aditi is support, Pusan is support, the twenty-sevenfold is support; (verily it
serves) for support. 'Thou art the portion of the god Savitr', (with these words he puts down) on the
north; the god Savitr is holy power, Brhaspati is holy power, the fourfold Stoma is holy power;
verily he places splendour on the north; therefore the northern half is more resplendent. (The verse)
contains a word connected with Savitr; (verily it serves) for instigation; therefore is their gain
produced in the north for Brahmans. 'The support, the fourfold Stoma', (with these words) he puts
down on the east; the support is the beginning of the sacrifice [4], the fourfold Stoma is the
beginning of the sacrifice; verily he establishes on the east the beginning of the sacrifice. 'Thou art
the portion of the Yavas', (with these words he puts down) on the south; the Yavas' are the months,
the Ayavas are the half-months; therefore the months turn to the south; the Yavas are food,
offspring is food; verily he places food on the south; therefore with the right food is eaten. 'Thou art
the portion of the Rbhus', (with these words he puts down) on the west, for support. 'The revolving,
the forty-eightfold', (with these words he puts down) on the north, to confer strength on these two
worlds; therefore these two worlds are of even strength [5]. He becomes first for whom these are
placed on the east as the beginning (of the sacrifice), and his son is born to be first; he eats food for
whom on the south these (are placed) rich in food, and a son is born to him to eat food; he finds
support for whom these (are placed) on the west, full of support; he becomes forcible for whom
these (are placed) on the north, full of force, and a forcible son is born to him. The fire is a hymn; I
verily in that this arrangement [6] is made are its Stotra and Çastra produced; verily in the hymn the
Arkya (Saman and Çastra) is produced; he eats food, and his son is born to eat food, for whom this
arrangement is made, and he too who knows it thus. He puts down the creating (bricks); verily he
wins things as created. Now there was neither day nor night in the world, but it was
undiscriminated; the gods saw these dawn (bricks), they put them down; then did this shine forth;
for him for whom these are put down the dawn breaks; verily he smites away the dark.
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'O Agni, drive away those foes of ours that are born', (with these words) he puts down on the east;
verily he drives away his foes on birth. 'That are born with force', (with these words he puts down)
on the west; verily he repels those that are to be born. 'The forty-fourfold Stoma', (with these words
he puts down) on the south; the forty-fourfold is splendour; verily he places splendour on the south;
therefore the right side is the more resplendent. 'The sixteenfold Stoma', (with these words he puts
down) on the north; the sixteenfold is force; verily he places force on the north; therefore [1] he that
advances to the north is victorious. The forty-fourfold is a thunderbolt, the sixteenfold is a thunder
bolt; in that he puts down these two bricks, he hurls the bolt after the foe born and to be born whom
he has repelled, to lay them low. He puts down in the middle (a brick) full of dust, the middle of the
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