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IX KÂNDA, 2 ADHYAYA, 3 BRAHMANA, 34. 201
(milk) is vital sap: he thus connects and puts together the head and the breath by means of vital sap. [He pours it out, with, Vâg. S. XVII, 70, 71], 'Night and Dawn, of one mind, unlike in form,' -the meaning of this has been explained1.
32. O Agni, thousand-eyed!-through the chips of gold Agni is indeed thousand-eyed ;hundred-headed,'-inasmuch as, at that time, he was created as the hundred-headed Rudra;-'thine are a hundred out-breathings, and a thousand through-breathings,'-his indeed are a hundred out-breathings and a thousand through-breathings who is hundred-headed and thousand-eyed; thou art the master of wealth,'-that is, 'thou art the master of all wealth;'-'to thee, our strength, do we give honour!'-he (Agni) is indeed the strength*: it is him he thereby gratifies.
33. With two (verses) he makes offering thereon,— two-footed is the Sacrificer, and the Sacrificer is Agni: as great as Agni is, as great as is his measure, with so much he thus makes offering to him.
34. He then lays it (the firebrand) down, with (Vag. S. XVII, 72, 73), 'A well-winged bird thou art, for on that former occasion he, by means of the fashioning-formula, fashions him into a well-winged bird"; that well-winged bird he builds up, and having fashioned that well-winged bird, he finally sets him down;-seat thee on the back
2 See IX, 2, 1, I.
1 Viz. VI, 7, 2, 2.
s See IX, 1, 1, 6.
*? Or, that (firebrand) is indeed food (vâga). Mahîdhara interprets this part of the formula thus: To thee do we give food (vâgâya for vâgam).
5 See VI, 7, 25 seq.
