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lays vital air into him; and in the same way indeed that intestinal breath (channel) is turned all round
however, not quite clear in what particular manner this fifth set of ten bricks is to be arranged round the centre so as to touch one another The two Retahsık bricks, occupying each a space of a square foot north and south of the spine, are separated from the central (Svayamâtrinna) brick by the Dviyagus brick a foot square. The inner side of the retahsik-space would thus be a foot and a half, and their outer side two feet and a half, distant from the central point of the altar. The retahsık range, properly speaking, would thus consist of a circular rim, obtained by drawing two
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concentric circles round the centre, with diameters of one and a half and two and a half feet respectively. On this rim (allowing for the coiners of the bricks jutting out) room would have to be found for twelve bricks of a foot square, viz. the two retahsık, already lying on the eastern side, south and north of the spine, and ten prânabhrits. The way in which these latter were arranged would probably be this: on each of the three other sides two bricks were laid down so as to join each other in a line with the respective
spine,' similarly to the two ieta hsık bricks on the east side; and the four remaining bricks would then be placed in the four corners- the twelve bricks thus forming, as nearly as could be, a circular nim. In the consti uction of the altar, this retahsık range is determined by a cord being stretched from the centre to the east end of the altar, after the special bricks of the first layer have
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