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x. 7- 18. Whose head [was] Vāiçvānara, [whose] eye the An̄girases were, whose members the familiar demons (yatú)—that Skambha tell [me]: which forsooth is he?

19. Of whom they call bráhman the mouth, the honey-whip the tongue also, of whom they call virā́j the udder—that Skambha etc. etc.

20. From whom they fashioned off the verses, from whom they scraped off the sacrificial formula, of whom the chants [are] the hairs (lóman), the Atharvans-and-An̄girases the mouth—that Skambha etc. etc.

21. The branch of the non-existent, standing forth, people know as in a manner the highest thing; also the lower ones who worship (upa-ās) thy branch think [it?] the existent thing.

22. Where both the Ādityas and the Rudras and the Vasus are set together; where both what is and what is to be, [and] all the worlds are established—that Skambha tell [me]: which forsooth is he?

23. Of whom the thirty-three gods always defend the treasure (nidhí): that treasure, which, O gods, ye defend, who at present knoweth?

24. Where the bráhman-knowing gods worship the chief bráhman—whoso verily knoweth them eye to eye (pratyákṣam), he may be a Brahman (brahmán), a knower.

25. Great (bṛhánt) by name [are] those gods who were born out of the non-existent; that one member of Skambha people call non-existent beyond.

26. Where the skambhá, generating forth, rolled out the ancient one, that one member of the skambhá they know also accordingly [as] the ancient one.