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VIII KÂNDA, 6 ADHYAYA, 3 BRAHMANA, 3. 117
light;'-for when on that occasion the gods were entering (heaven), Pragâpati was the last to enter: that is why he says, 'The light (is) in the highest heaven of the gods.' And as to why he says, 'The gods (are) in the highest heaven of light,'-the light, doubtless, is this Agni (the fire-altar), and it is on his highest layer that all the gods have thus entered: this is why he says, 'The gods are in the highest heaven of light.'
THIRD BRAHMANA.
1. He lays down the Gârhapatya. For the gods, having obtained this much, thought they had succeeded. They spake, 'Whereby have we succeeded in this?'-By means of the Gârhapatya,' they said, 'for, after building the Gârhapatya1 and mounting thereon, we saw the first layer, from the first (we saw) the second, from the second the third, from the third the fourth, from the fourth the fifth, and from the fifth this one.'
2. They spake, 'Think ye upon this, how there may be success here for us!' They spake, Meditate ye (kit)!' whereby, indeed, they meant to say, 'Seek ye a layer (kiti)! seek ye whereby there may be success here for us!'
3. Whilst meditating, they said this: 'Let us bring this one here and put it on (the fire-altar) !' Having brought this (Gârhapatya) here, they put it
1 For the building of the separate Gârhapatya hearth, on which the sacred fire was transferied from the Ukhâ (fire-pan), see part 1, p. 298 seq., its sketch, p. 302. A similar hearth is now built on the fifth layer of the Ahavanîya fire-altar.
