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5. Prior born of the bráhman, the Vedic student, clothing himself with heat (gharmá), stood up with fervor; from him [was] born the brā́hmaṇa, the chief bráhman, and all the gods, together with immortality (amṛ́ta).

6. The Vedic student goes kindled with fuel, clothing himself in the black-antelope-skin, consecrated, long-bearded; he goes at once from the eastern to the northern ocean, having grasped the worlds, again and again violently shaping (? ācarikṛ) [them].

7. The Vedic student, generating the bráhman, the waters, the world, Prajāpati, the most exalted one, the virāj, having become an embryo in the womb of immortality; having become Indra, he has shattered (tṛh) the Asuras.

8. The teacher fabricated both these envelops (nábhas), the wide, profound, [namely] earth and sky; them the Vedic student defends by fervor; in him the gods become like-minded.

9. This broad (pṛthivī́) earth, and the sky, the Vedic student first brought [as] alms (bhikṣā́); having made them [both] fuel, he worships; in them are set (ā́rpita) all beings.

10. The one this side, the other beyond, the back of the sky, in secret [are] deposited ⌊ni-dhā⌋ the two treasures (nidhí) of the brā́hmaṇa; them the Vedic student defends by fervor; the whole of that he, knowing, makes bráhman for himself.