1. Next follows the right wing. It is this world (the earth), it is
this Agni, it is speech, it is the Rathantara, it is Vasishtha, it is a
hundred. These are the six powers (of the right wing). The Sampâta
hymn (Rv. IV, 20) serves indeed for obtaining desires and for
firmness. The Pankti verse (Rv. I, 80, 1) serves for proper food.
2. Next comes the Sûdadohas verse. Sûdadohas is breath, thereby he
joins all joints with breath.
3. Next follows the left wing. It is that world (heaven), it is
that sun, it is mind, it is the Brihat, it is Bharadvâga, it is a
hundred. These are the six powers (of the left wing). The Sampâta hymn
(Rv. IV, 23) serves indeed for obtaining desires and for firmness.
The Pankti verse (Rv. I, 81, 1) serves for proper food.
4. These two (the right and the left wings) are deficient and
excessive. The Brihat (the left wing) is man, the Rathantara (the right
wing) is woman. The excess belongs to the man, the deficiency to the
woman. Therefore they are deficient and excessive.
5. Now the left wing of a bird is verily by one feather better,
therefore the left wing is larger by one verse.
6. Next comes the Sûdadohas verse. Sûdadohas is breath, and thereby
he joins all joints with breath.
7. Next follows the tail. They are twenty-one Dvipada verses. For
there are twenty-one backward feathers in a bird.
8. Then the Ekavimsa is the support of all Stomas, and the tail the
support of all birds.
9. He recites a twenty-second verse. This is made the form of two
supports. Therefore all birds support themselves on their tail, and
having supported themselves on their tail, they fly up. For the tail
is a support.
10. He (the bird and the hymn) is supported by two decades which are
Virâg. The man (the sacrificer) is supported by the two Dvipadas, the
twenty-first and twenty-second. That which forms the bird serves for
the attainment of all desires; that which forms the man, serves for his
happiness, glory, proper food, and honour.
11. Next comes a Sûdadohas verse, then a Dhayya, then a Sûdadohas
verse. The Sûdadohas is a man, the Dhayya a woman, therefore he
recites the Dhayya as embraced on both sides by the Sûdadohas.
Therefore does the seed of both, when it is effused, obtain oneness,
and this with regard to the woman only. Hence birth takes place in and
from the woman. Therefore he recites that Dhayya in that place.