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fire altar piling (citi)

The piling up of Agni out of bricks, named by the Samhita as an act and not by a rite-name: Agni is addressed as `cīyamānaḥ`, "while thou art being piled" (VS 13.41, VS 13.47), the sacrificer as `cinvānaḥ`, "piling" (VS 13.47 and four parallels), and the bricks are addressed as bricks and called milch-cows at VS 17.2. The name `agnicayana` is absent from all four Samhitas and is not used here. `cinvānas` is read evidence but not an alias: it occurs only across a token boundary (`cinvānas tanvo`), and SANDHI_MATCH_VEDAS restricts the production substring pass to the Samaveda, so the string would fire nowhere.

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