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x. 7- 34. Of whom the wind [was] breath-and-expiration, [of whom] the An̄girases were the eye; who made the quarters fore-knowing (? prajñā́na)—to that chief bráhman be homage.

35. The skambhá sustains both heaven-and-earth here; the skambhá sustains the wide atmosphere; the skambhá sustains the six wide directions; into the skambhá hath entered this whole existence (bhúvana).

36. Who, born from toil, from penance, completely attained all worlds; who made soma all his own—to that chief bráhman be homage.

37. How does the wind not cease (il)? how does the mind not rest (ram)? why (kím) do the waters, seeking to attain truth, at no time soever cease?

38. A great monster (yakṣá) in the midst of the creation (bhúvana), strode (? krāntá) in penance on the back of the sea—in it are set (çri) whatever gods there are, like the branches of a tree roundabout the trunk.

39. Unto which with the two hands, with the two feet, with speech, with hearing, with sight; unto which the gods continually render (pra-yam) tribute, unmeasured in the measured out—that skambhá tell [me]: which forsooth is he?

40. Smitten away is his darkness; he is separated from evil; in him. are all the three lights that are in Prājapati.