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a O Agni, come to enjoy', he says; verily he summons him.
b 'Agni we choose as envoy', he says; verily having called he chooses him.
c 'By Agni Agni is kindled', he says; verily he kindles him.
d 'May Agni slay the foes', he says; verily he confers power on him when
kindled.
e 'O Agni, we exalt the praise', he says; verily he exalts him.
These are the forms of the days [1]; verily each day he piles him, and wins the
forms of the days. The theologians say, 'For what reason are other bricks
exhausted, the space-filler not?' 'Because it is connected with Indra and Agni
and with Brhaspati', he should say, for Indra and Agni and Brhaspati are those
among the gods who are not exhausted. It has a follower to avoid monotony. He
follows it with an Anustubh; the space filler is the body, the Anustubh the
breath; therefore breath comes through all the limbs. 'They of him, streaming
with milk' [2], he says; therefore there is sap in every joint; 'the dappled
mix the Soma', he says; the dappled (cow) is food; verily he wins food; Agni is
praise, food is praise; verily he wins food; 'the clans in the birthplace of
the gods, in the three realms of sky', he says; verily he makes these worlds
full of light for him. He who knows the support of the bricks finds support.
'With that deity, in the manner of Angiras, do thou sit firm,' he says; this is
the support of the bricks; he who knows thus finds support.
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