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507 conquered; hail ⌊svā́hā⌋ to these! wail (duráhā) to those! with the blue-red one I stretch down upon them yonder.

1. Whence [were] those two born? which side (árdha) was that? out of what world? out of which earth? the two young (vatsá) of the virā́j rose out of the sea (salilá); of those I ask thee: by whether [of them was] she milked?

2. He who caused the sea to resound (krand) with greatness, making a threefold lair (yóni) as he lay, the desire-milking young of the virā́j; he made his bodies secret (gúhā) in the distance.

3. What three great ones (bṛhát, n.) there are, the fourth of which [one] disjoins [as] speech—the priest (brahmán) may know it by penance, the inspired one, in which one (ékam) is joined, in which one [is joined].

4. Forth out of bṛhát [as] sixth five sāmans [were] fashioned; bṛhát was fashioned out of bṛhatī́; out of what was bṛhatī́ made?

5. Bṛhatī́ the measure (mā́trā) was fashioned forth out of measure [as] a mother; illusion (māyā́) was born from illusion, Mātalī out of illusion.