168 H. Ocrtcl, 



blocked [their wa}]. The two said : ' Let us pass.' ' No,' said she, 

 ' unless you two give me a share.' • One third [be] thine,' they 

 said, ' but let it be named from us two only'. [Sa3'ing :] ' Yes," she 

 let the two pass. 6. These two won ovit. He who knows this 

 victory of the Agvins, where he wishes : ' May I win out here,' there 

 he wins out. And, likewise, he who knows this participation of 

 Agni and the Dawn, where he wishes : ' May I be a participator 

 here,' there be becomes a participator. 7. Therefore [while] they 

 chant [verses] addressed to several divinities, 3'et is [this castra] 

 named after the Agvins only, for that was their chosen boon. 



211, 1. The gods and the Asuras were [engaged] in a contest 

 about day and night. The gods conquered day, then the Asuras 

 entered both the re and night. 2. The gods said : ' Verily, sharers 

 in [only] half of this creation have we become ; how ma}' we complete- 

 ly conquer night ? Let us descend with [our] treasures." ' With 

 thy metre,' they said to Agni, 'With thy stoma,' ^ [the}' said] to In- 

 dra, ' With thy success,' [they said] to Prajapati, ' With your al^ode,' 

 [they said] to the All Gods. 3. Because they said to Agni : ' With 

 thy metre,' therefore they chant [verses in] the gayatrl-metre ; be- 

 cause they said to Indra : ' With thy stoma,' therefore the lifteen- 

 fold stoma belongs to the night; because they said to Prajapati : 

 ' With thy success,' therefore he accomplishes the anustubh ; because 

 they said to the All Gods : ' With your abode,' therefore they recite 

 thereafter with the jagati[-metre]. 4. By means of the sarhdhi 

 [-stotra] they put them to flight, by means of the [castra] addressed 

 to the Agvins they caused [them] to go to [their] undoing; he 

 causes his hateful rival to go to [his] undoing, who knows thus. 



212. 1. The gods, having ousted the Asuras from day and night, 

 held them down with the threefold thunderbolt. These worlds 

 are threefold, with these worlds they thus held them down. There- 

 fore they say : ' So far as these worlds will be, so far the Asuras 

 will not be present.' For they are held down by these worlds. 

 2. "Verily the night[-service] is the identical measure of the Agnistoma 

 and of the year. The year has twenty-four half-months, and the 

 ukthas and potations of the night[-service] [amount to] twenty -four. 

 There are three pressings and three rounds. In this way they 

 make the night[-service] composed of three pressings. And likewise 

 they thus shape them out from the day. 3. The gods, having won 



^ ' La maniere dont s'exectite un stotra est dite le stoma, et chaque 

 stoma porte un nom tecluiique tire de ses particularites d'execntion,* 

 Caland-Heiiry, L'.lon/ftfo/na, p. xii f. 



