The Hindu Temple v1.c6.13

v1.c6.13

⁴ Ś.B. X. 4. 2. 2. “Prajāpati, the year has created all living beings and things, gods and men; having created all he felt like one emptied out and was afraid of death”;—Ś.B. X. 2. 6. 4 (end): “Beyond the year lies the immortal.” Ś.B. X. 3. 3. “The gods were afraid of this Prajāpati, the year, Death, the ender.” Ś.B. X. 3. 8. “Prajāpati then spoke: Lay ye down 360 enclosing stones and world filling (lokampṛṇṇā) [bricks], lay ye down 10.800 and ye will be laying down all my forms and will become immortal.” 10.800 = 360 × 30 (muhūrtas in the year; one muhūrta is 48 minutes) = 135 × 80 (the amount of 80 of which the 3 Vedas consist, the sum total of knowledge and existence). “The self-offerer knows: This my body is formed by those parts (aṅga) of the sacrifice (Ś.B. XI. 2. 6. 13); this my new body is procured thereby.”