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THIRTEENTH KHANDA.

1. Then the Âhavanîya 3 fire taught him: 'Breath, ether, heaven, and lightning (these are my forms). The person that is seen in the lightning, I am he, I am he indeed.

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2. 'He who knowing this meditates on him, destroys sin, obtains the world (of Agni Âhavanîya), reaches his full age, and lives long; his descendants do not perish. We guard him in this world and in the other, whosoever knowing this meditates on him.'


Footnotes

66:3 The Âhavanîya altar is the altar on the eastern side of the sacrificial ground.


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