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X KANDA, 4 ADHYAYA, 2 BRAHMANA, 18.
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II. He made himself ten bodies of seventy-two bricks each: he did not succeed. He did not develop elevenfold.
12. He made himself twelve bodies of sixty bricks each: he did not succeed. He did not develop either thirteenfold or fourteenfold.
13. He made himself fifteen bodies of forty-eight bricks each: he did not succeed.
14. He made himself sixteen bodies of forty-five bricks each: he did not succeed. He did not develop seventeenfold.
15. He made himself eighteen bodies of forty bricks each : he did not succeed. He did not develop nineteenfold.
16. He made himself twenty bodies of thirty-six bricks each: he did not succeed. He did not develop either twenty-one-fold, or twenty-two-fold, or twenty-three-fold.
17. He made himself twenty-four bodies of thirty bricks each. There he stopped, at the fifteenth ; and because he stopped at the fifteenth arrangement there are fifteen forms of the waxing, and fifteen of the waning (moon).
18. And because he made himself twenty-four bodies, therefore the year consists of twenty-four half-months. With these twenty-four bodies of thirty bricks each he had not developed (sufficiently). He saw the fifteen parts of the day, the muhûrtas”,
Literally, shifting about of the bricks of the altar), development.
2 The day and night consists of thirty muhûrtas, a muhûrta being thus equal to about forty-eight minutes or four-fifths of an hour.
