FIFTH KHANDA.

1. 'The altar is Parganya (the god of rain), O Gautama; its fuel is the air itself, the smoke the cloud, the light the lightning, the coals. the thunderbolt, the sparks the thunderings .

2. 'On that altar the Devas offer Soma, the king (the moon). From that oblation rises rain .

Footnotes

^78:3 Hraduni, generally explained by hail, but here by stanayitnusabdah, rumblings.

^79:1 The water, which had assumed the nature of Soma, now becomes rain.