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holy work, come to life again when they die, and they become the food of him (Death) time after time.
II. But when he builds the fire-altar, he thereby gains Agni, Pragâpati, the Year, Death, the Ender, whom the gods gained; it is him he lays down, even as the gods thus laid him down.
12. By the enclosing-stones he gains his nights ; by the Yagushmati (bricks) his days, half-moons, months, and seasons; and by the Lokamprinâs the muhûrtas (hours).
13. Thus the enclosing-stones, supplying the place of nights, are made the (means of) gaining the nights, they are the counterpart of the nights: there are three hundred and sixty of them, for there are three hundred and sixty nights in the year. Of these, he lays twenty-one round the Gârhapatya, seventyeight round the Dhishnya hearths, and two hundred and sixty-one round the Åhavaniya.
14. Then the Yagushmati (bricks with special formulas)-the grass-bunch, the (four) clod-bricks, the lotus-leaf, the gold plate and man, the two spoons, the naturally-perforated (brick), the durvå-brick, the (one) dviyagus, two retahsik, a visvagyotis, two seasonal ones, an ashâdhâ, the tortoise, the mortar and pestle, the fire-pan, the five victims' heads, fifteen apasyâs, five khandasyâs, fifty prânabhritsthese ninety-eight are (in) the first layer.
15. Then the second (layer) :-five asvinis, two seasonal ones, five vaisvadevis, five prânabhrits, five apasyâs, nineteen vayasyâs--these forty-one are (in) the second layer.
16. Then the third (layer) :—the naturally-perforated one, five regional ones, a visvagyotis, four seasonal ones, ten prânabhrits, thirty-six khandasyâs,
