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xiii. 2- 38. A thousand days' journey are expanded the wings of him, of the yellow swan flying to heaven; he, putting all the gods in his breast, goes viewing together all existences.

39. The ruddy one became time, the ruddy one in the beginning Prajāpati; the ruddy one [is] face (mouth?) of the sacrifices; the ruddy one brought the bright sky (svàr).

40. The ruddy one became the world; the ruddy one overheated the sky; the ruddy one with his rays goes about over the earth, the ocean.

41. All the quarters did the ruddy one, over-lord of the sky, go about upon; the sky, the ocean, also the earth—all that exists doth he defend.

42. He, mounting, glowing [and] unwearied, the great [spaces], makes for himself, shining (ruc), two forms; wondrous, understanding, ⌊bull,⌋ wind-going (??), when he shines out (vi-bhā) upon as many worlds [as there are].

43. The one he falls upon (abhi-i), the other he casts about—the bull, arranging with day-and-night; we, imploring, call upon the track-finding sun, dwelling in the welkin (rájas).

44. The earth-filling bull (mahiṣá), track of the implorer, of undamaged sight, hath encompassed the all; beholding (sam-paç) the all, beneficent, reverend, let him hear this which I say.

'Track' (in b), i.e. facilitation or facilitator of progress. Mahiṣas is an evident intrusion, and the verse is strictly a triṣṭubh with redundant syllables. Ppp. reads in a pṛthivipro m. bādhamānasya; for b, adbhutacakṣuṣ pari saṁ babhūva; and, for d,