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9. In that they fetch a coverlet (? upariçayaná), thereby one gains possession of the heavenly (svargá) world.

10. In that they fetch mattress and pillow, those are the enclosures (paridhí).

11. In that they fetch ointment and unguent, that is sacrificial butter.

12. In that they fetch a morsel (khādá) before the serving-up (pariveṣá), that is the two sacrificial cakes.

13. In that they call the food-maker (açanakṛ́t), they so call the maker of oblations.

14. The grains of rice, of barley, that are scattered out—those are soma-shoots (aṅçú).

15. The mortar and pestles—those are the pressing-stones.

16. The sieve ⌊çū́rpa⌋ is the soma-strainer (pavítra); the chaff is the pomace (ṛjīṣā́); the waters are those of pressing.

17. The spoon is the sacrificial spoon, the stirring-stick the spit (? nékṣaṇa), the kettles the wooden vessels, the drinking-vessels those of Vāyu, this [earth] itself the black antelope's skin.