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SATAPATHA-BRÂHMANA.
able to procreate : let us unite with our forms!' They united in each single season with their forms, whence there is in each single season the form of all the seasons. As to their (formulas) beginning in a different way, it is because they were created different (or separately); and as to their ending in the same way, it is because they united with their forms.
5. He lays them down, with (Vâg. S. XV, 57), 'Tapa and Tapasya, the two dewy seasons,'these are the names of these two : it is thus by their names that he lays them down. Tapa (the burner), doubtless, is yonder sun: from him these two seasons are not separated ; and inasmuch as these two seasons are not separated from him, they are called Tapa and Tapasya.
6. 'Agni's coupling-link thou art,'—this firealtar is the year, and it is joined together by means of the seasonal (bricks) : he thus makes the year continuous, and joins it together by means of the seasons ;-'May Heaven and earth fit into one another! may the waters and plants fit into each other! -he thereby makes everything here i to fit in by means of the seasons : May the fires fit into one another, each singly, working harmoniously together for my supremacy!'for these single bricks are the same as those fires : he thus says this so that they may fit in with each other for the supremacy of those two seasons ;
whatever fires there are, at one with each other, within these two, Heaven and Earth;-- as the text is, so is its meaning ;-' let them draw
1 Or, all this universe..
