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591 10. Where men know both worlds and receptacles (kóça), waters, bráhman, within which [are] both the non-existent and the existent—that Skambha tell [me]: which forsooth is he?

11. Where penance, striding forth, maintains the higher vow (vratá), where both right and faith, waters, bráhman, are set together, that Skambha etc. etc.

12. In whom earth, atmosphere, in whom sky is set, where fire, moon, sun, wind stand fixed (ā́rpita), that Skambha etc. etc.

13. In whose member all the thirty-three gods are set together, that Skambha etc. etc.

14. Where the first-born seers, the verses, the chant, the sacrificial formula, the great one (mahī́); in whom the sole seer is fixed—that Skambha etc. etc.

15. Where both immortality (amṛ́ta) and death are set together in man (púruṣa), of whom the ocean, the veins (nāḍī́) are set together in man, that Skambha etc. etc.

16. Of whom the four directions are (sthā) the teeming (? prapyasá) veins, where the sacrifice hath strode forth, that Skambha etc. etc.

17. Whoever know the bráhman in man, they know the most exalted one; whoever knows the most exalted one, and whoever knows Prajāpati, whoever know the chief bráhmaṇa, they know also accordingly (anu-sam-vid) the Skambha.