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6. Vāiçvānara's counterpart [is] the sky above, as far as Agni forced (bādh) apart the two firmaments; from that sixth yonder come the sómas; up from here they go unto the sixth of the day.

7. We these six seers ask thee, O Kaçyapa, for thou didst join what is joined and what is to be joined; they call (ah) virā́j the father of the bráhman; distribute (? vi-dhā) it to us [thy] friends according to [our] numbers.

8. After whom, when removed, the sacrifices remove (pra-cyu), [whom], when attending, they attend on (upa-sthā), in whose course (vratá) ⌊and?⌋ impulse the monster (? yakṣá) stirs—that, O seers, is the virā́j in the highest firmament.

9. Breathless, she goes by the breath of breathing ones (f.); virā́j goes unto svarā́j from behind; virā́j that touches, that is adapted to, everything—some see her, some see her not.

10. Who understandeth (pra-vid) the pair-ness of virā́j? who the seasons, who the ordering (kálpa) of her? who her steps (kráma), how many times milked out (vi-duh)? who her abode (dhā́man), how many times dawnings (vyùṣṭi)?

11. This same is she that first shone forth; among these other ones (f.) she goes about having entered; great mightinesses [are] within her; the woman, the new-going generatrix, hath conquered.

12. The two meter-winged dawns, greatly adorning themselves, move on together toward the same lair (yóni); spouses of the sun, they move on together, understanding, having ensigns, unaging, having abundant seed.