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25. 'Go thou forth to the eastern quarter, knowing!'--the eastern quarter, doubtless, is Agnis: thus, 'To thine own quarter go thou forth, knowing! - be thou Agni's fore-fire here, O Agni!that is, “Of this Agni (kitya) be thou, O Agni, the fore-fire?!' -'Shine thou, illumining all regions!'—that is, 'shine thou, illuminating every region!'--'Grant thou food to our two-footed and four-footed one! he thereby invokes a blessing.
26. From the earth have I ascended the air; from the air have I ascended the sky;'for from the Gârhapatya they go to the Âgnidhriya, and from the Âgnidhriya to the Ahavaniya ;– from the sky, the back of the firmament, have I gone to heaven, to the light;'—that is from the sky, the back of the firmament, have I gone to the heavenly world.'
27. The heaven-going look not round, they ascend the heaven, the two worlds,'--those who go to the heavenly world do not indeed look round %; the wise who performed the all-sustaining sacrifice,'--for that sacrifice is indeed all-sustainings, and they who perform it are indeed wise.
28. 'Go forward, Agni, first of the godwardgoing—he thereby says to this Agni (that is carried forward), 'Go thou forward, as the first of these godward-going ones; '-'the eye of the gods
1 Mahîdhara takes 'puro'gni' in the sense of fore-goer (puras agre angati gakkhatı).
2 That is, according to Mahîdhara, they think not of their sons, cattle, &c.
8 Thus Mahidhara takes 'visvatodhâra;' 'flowing in every direction' (visvato + dhâxa), St. Petersb. Dict.
