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6. These luminous [bodies] he again heated up. From them thorough- 

 ly heated three luminous [bodies] went up : ' bhus ' from the Rigveda, 

 ' bhuvas ' from the Yajurveda, ' svar ' from the Samaveda. This same, 

 verily, is the luminous [essence] of the threefold knowledge. vSo great 

 is this All. Verily, what the world of one who knows the three- 

 fold knowledge is, that becomes the world of him who knows thus. 

 358. 1. Now then Prajapati having created the sacrilice went up 

 upward. 2. He said to the gods : ' Extend ye^ the sacrilice b}- means 

 of the threefold Veda.' .3. These gods, performing their sacrilice 

 by means of this threefold Veda, smote away evil, they found (the 

 way to) the heavenly world. They said : ' In that we, performing 

 our sacrifice b}' means of this threefold Veda, have smitten away 

 evil we have found (the way to) the heavenly world. If now to- 

 day our sacrifice here should go stumbling, how shall we heal it ? ' 

 4. Prajapati said to them : ' [With the words :] " What was the splen- 

 dour, power, strength, [and] essence of this threefold Veda that, for 

 sooth, I offered up- unto you," I bestowed these sacred utterances : 

 with them ye should heal it.' 5. If3 this sacrifice should go stum- 

 bling in respect of the re ye should make an offering in the garjiapa- 

 ty a-fire, [saying : j ' bli/ls svdhd ' ; that is the expiation in that case. 

 6. And if in respect of the yajus, ye should make an offering in 

 the agnldhra, [saying:] ^bhuvas svdhd''] that is the expiation in that 

 case. 7. And if in respect of the saman, ye should make an offering 

 in the ahavanlya-fire, [saying :] ' svas svdhd ' ; that is the expiation 

 in that case. 8. And if either in the havis- and animal sacrifices'^ 

 or in the new-moon and full moon sacrifices, ye should make an 

 offering in the anvaharyapacana-fire, [saying :] ' bhuvas svdhd ' ; that 

 is the expiation in that case. 9. And if in respect to something not 

 remembered, [when they say :] ' Whence hath this arisen ?, ' ye 

 should make an offering in the ahavanlya-fire, [saying :] ' bhdr bhuvas 

 svas svdhd ^ ; that is the expiation for- this all. 10. As one would 

 mend something broken [by] putting together joint with joint, even 

 so one who knows thus mends all this, and if one who does not 

 know thus performs the expiation for anyone, that is exactly as if 

 one were to put something broken with something broken, or as 

 if one were to put a load on something that is broken. 11. And 



^ This is Whitney's rendering of the technical term; Eggeling trans- 

 lates it by ' spread (perform).' 



* A first person present would seem more appropriate in this quotation. 



3 This should really form part of Prajapati's speech, but it is not so 

 marked. •* The case here changes to the locative. 



