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VIII KÂNDA, 2 ADHYAYA, I BRÂHMANA, 10.
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makes the regions on all sides face each other, and hence the regions on all sides face each other. He lays (the bricks) down separately, settles them separately, and pronounces the sûdadohas over them separately, for separate are the regions.
9. He then lays down the fifth regional (or Âsvini brick). Now that region is the one above 1; and that same region above, doubtless, is yonder sun: it is yonder sun he thus places thereon. He places this (brick) within the southern regional one 2 : he thus places yonder sun within the southern region, and therefore he moves within the southern region.
10. [He lays it down, with Vâg. S. XIV, 5), I settle thee upon the back of Aditi,'-Aditi doubtless is this (earth): it is upon her, as a foundation, that he thus founds him (Agni) ;-'the holder
bricks, if continued towards the centre of the altar, intersect one another. As applied to the quarters this meaning would then modify itself to that of "facing each other. On the other hand, it is quite possible that the meaning oftending in the same direction' is the one intended; and it would in that case probably apply to the fact that the sets opposite to each other have their line-marks running in the same direction, or are parallel to each other; and this meaning would seem to be implied to the quarters where the author supports his argument by the fact that the wind blows, and the rain falls, in the same direction in all the four quarters (VIII, 2, 3, 2; 5). It is curious that the expression is used by the author in connection with the asvini, prânabhrat, and apasyâ, but not with the vaisvadevi, the line-marks of which all meet in one central point, which is not the case with the others. At VIII, 3, I, II, on the other hand, it is used again in connection with the Disyâ bricks, which, in the third layer, occupy exactly the same spaces as the Vaisvadevis do here.
i Or, that direction is the one upward (from here).
? That is to say, he places it immediately north of the southern âsvinî, so as to fill up the unoccupied, inner half of the space of a foot square).
