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2. From whom the winds in their season go purifying (pū), out of whom the oceans flow forth—against that god etc. etc.

3. Who causes to die [and] causes to breathe; from whom all existences breathe—against that god etc. etc.

4. Who gratifies heaven-and-earth with breath; who fills the belly of the ocean with respiration—against that god etc. etc.

5. In whom is set (çritá) Virāj, the most exalted one, Prajāpati, Agni Vāiçvānara with the series (pan̄ktí); who took to himself the breath of the lofty one, the brilliancy of the loftiest one—against that god etc. etc.

6. Upon whom are set (çritá) the six wide [spaces], the five quarters, the four waters, the three syllables (? akṣára) of the sacrifice; who, angered, looked with his eye between the two firmaments (ródaṣī)—against that god etc. etc.

7. Who became food-eater, lord of food, and also Brahmaṇaspati (lord of worship); who is and shall be lord of existence—against that god etc. etc.