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13. From that all-sacrificing sacrifice were born the verses (ṛ́c), the chants (sā́man); meter ⌊sic!⌋ were born from that; sacrificial formula was born from that.

14. From that all-sacrificing sacrifice was collected the speckled butter (pṛṣadājyá); it made those cattle belonging to Vāyu—those that are of the forest and of the village.

15. Seven were made its enclosing sticks (paridhí), thrice seven its pieces of fuel, when the gods, extending the sacrifice, bound Purusha as victim.

16. Seven times seventy rays (aṅçú) were born from the head of the great god, of king Soma, when born out of Purusha.

The hymn is wanting in Pāipp. The comm. finds it used three times (in i, 6, and 12) in the Nakṣatra Kalpa.

⌊Regarding the asterisms in general, the reader may consult Whitney's Oriental and Linguistic Studies, ii., pages 351-356, 377, and 421 and the chart following it, or else Whitney in JAOS., vi. 414, 468, and chart; further, Weber's essays, Die vedischen Nachrichten von den naxatra, ''Abh. der Berliner Ak., 1860 and 1861.* A list of the asterisms is given in my translation of the Karpūra-mañjarī'', appended to Konow's ed.,