Smoke, night, and the dark half of the month, the six months of the sun's southern course; There, the yogi attaining the lunar light, returns.
In smoke, night, dark lunar night, the sun's six-month southward course, a man of discipline reaches the moon's light and returns.
(25) Smoke, night, [the moon's] dark [fortnight], the six months of the [sun's] southern course,—[dying] in these an athlete of the spirit wins the light of the moon, and back he comes again.
8.25 Smoke, night, as also the dark fortnight and the six months of the Southern solstice-following this Path the yogi having reached the lunar light, returns.
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8.25 Attaining to the lunar light by smoke, night time, the dark fortnight also, the six months of the southern path of the sun (the southern solstice), the Yogi returns.