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717 páreṇé ’d pū́rvā. ⌊The Anukr. doubtless balances the extra syllable in a by counting kúa as one syllable in d.⌋

42. One-footed, two-footed [is] she, four-footed; having become eight-footed, nine-footed, thousand-syllabled, a series of existence; out from her flow apart the oceans.

43. Mounting the sky, immortal, do thou favor my words; sacrifices purified by bráhman carry thee up; yellow roadsters draw thee.

44. I know that of thine, O immortal one, namely (yát) thy climb (ākrámaṇa) in the sky, thy station (sadhástha) in the highest firmament.

45. The sun overlooks (ati-paç) the sky, the sun the earth, the sun the waters; the sun, the one eye of what exists, hath mounted the great sky.

46. The wide ones (urvī́) were the enclosures; the earth took shape as sacrificial hearth; there the ruddy one set (ā-dhā) these two fires, cold and heat.

47. Having set cold and heat, having made the mountains sacrificial posts (yū́pa), having rain as sacrificial butter, the two fires of the sky-finding ruddy one performed sacrifice (yaj).

48. The fire of the sky-finding ruddy one is kindled with bráhman; therefrom heat, therefrom cold, therefrom the sacrifice was born.

49. The two fires [are] increasing by bráhman, increased with bráhman, offered to with bráhman: kindled with bráhman, the two fires of the sky-finding ruddy one performed sacrifice.

50. The one is all set in truth, the other is kindled in the waters: kindled with etc. etc.