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xi. 8- 24. Delights, joys, enjoyments, and they that enjoy enjoyments, laughter, sport, dances, entered the body afterward.

25. Both appeals (ālāpá) and pratings (pralāpá), and they who utter (-lap) addresses (abhīlāpa-)—all entered the body, joiners-on (āyúj), joiners-forth (prayúj), joiners.

26. Breath-and-expiration, sight, hearing, indestructibleness and destruction, out-breathing and up-breathing, speech, mind—they go about (īja-) with the body.

27. Both blessings (āçís) and precepts (praçís), demands (saṁçís) and explanations (viçís), thoughts, all devisings, entered the body afterward.

28. Both those of the blood and those of the bladder, the hasting and those that are pitiable, the secret, the clear, the thick waters—those they caused to settle in the repugnant one.

29. Having made bone [their] fuel, then they caused eight waters to settle; having made seed [their] sacrificial butter, the gods entered man.

30. What waters [there are], and what deities, what virā́j, with bráhman; bráhman entered the body; on (ádhi) the body [is] Prajāpati.

31. The sun, the wind, shared [respectively] the eye, the breath of man; then his other self the gods bestowed (pra-yam) on Agni.