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627 16. Bṛhát the stirring-stick, rathaṁtará the spoon.

17. The seasons the cooks; they of the seasons kindle fire.

18. Heat (gharmá) burns upon the pot of five openings, the boiler (ukhá).

19. By the rice-dish of him who hath an offering (?) all worlds are to be obtained together.

20. In which ⌊rice-dish⌋ are set (çritá), one below the other, the three, sea, sky, earth.

21. In the remnant (úchiṣṭa) of which took shape six times eighty gods.

22. Thee here I ask of the rice-dish, what is its great greatness.

23. He who may know the greatness of the rice-dish—

24. May not say "[it is] little," not "[it is] without onpouring," nor "[it is] this thing soever."

25. As much as the giver may set his mind upon, that one should not overbid (ati-vad).

26. The theologues (brahmavādín) say: hast thou eaten (pra-aç) the rice-dish as it was retiring (párāñc), or as it was coming on (pratyáñc)?

27. Hast thou eaten the rice-dish, or the rice-dish thee?