{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/av/av10002.htm","path":"hin/av/av10002.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/av/av10002.htm","text":"Hymns of the Atharva Veda, by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1895]\n1Who framed the heels of P\u016brusha? Who fashioned the flesh of\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0him? Who formed and fixed his ankles?\n \u00a0\u00a0Who made the openings and well-moulded fingers? Who gave\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0him foot-soles and a central station?\n 2Whence did they make the ankles that are under, and the knee-\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0bones of P\u016brusha above them?\n \u00a0\u00a0What led them onward to the legs' construction? Who planned\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0and formed the knees' articulations?\n 3A fourfold frame is fixt with ends connected, and up above the\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0knees a yielding belly.\n \u00a0\u00a0The hips and thighs, who was their generator, those props where-\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0by the trunk grew firmly stablished?\n 43Who and how many were those Gods who fastened the chest of\n \u00a0\u00a0P\u016brusha and neck together?\n \u00a0\u00a0How many fixed his breasts? Who formed his elbows? How\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0many joined together ribs and shoulders?\n 5Who put together both his arms and said, Let him show manly\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0strength?\n \u00a0\u00a0Who and what God was he who set the shoulderblades upon\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0the trunk?\n 6Who pierced the seven openings in the head? Who made these\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0ears, these nostrils, eyes, and mouth,\n \u00a0\u00a0Through whose surpassing might in all directions bipeds and\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0quadrupeds have power of motion?\n 7He set within the jaws the tongue that reaches far, and thereon\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0placed Speech the mighty Goddess.\n \u00a0\u00a0He wanders to and fro mid living creatures, robed in the waters.\n \u00a0\u00a0Who hath understood it?\n 8Who was he, first, of all the Gods who fashioned his skull and\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0brain and occiput and forehead,\n \u00a0\u00a0The pile that P\u016brusha's two jaws supported? Who was that\n \u00a0\u00a0God who mounted up to heaven?\n 9Whence bringeth mighty P\u016brusha both pleasant and unpleasant\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0things,\n \u00a0\u00a0Of varied sort, sleep, and alarm, fatigue, enjoyments and de-\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0lights?\n 10Whence is there found in P\u016brusha want, evil, suffering, dis-\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0tress? p. 6\n \u00a0\u00a0Whence come success, prosperity opulence, thought, and utte-\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0rance?\n 11Who stored in him floods turned in all directions, moving diverse\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0and formed to flow in rivers,\n \u00a0\u00a0Hasty, red, copper-hued, and purple, running all ways in\n \u00a0\u00a0Purusha, upward and downward?\n 12Who gave him visible form and shape? Who gave him magni-\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0tude and name?\n \u00a0\u00a0Who gave him motion, consciousness? Who furnished P\u016brusha\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0with feet?\n 13Who wove the vital air in him, who filled him with the down-\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0ward breath?\n \u00a0\u00a0What God bestowed on P\u016brusha the general pervading air?\n 14What God, what only Deity placed sacrifice in P\u016brusha?\n \u00a0\u00a0Who gave him truth and falsehood? Whence came Death and\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0immortality?\n 15Who wrapped a garment round him? Who arranged the life he\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0hath to live?\n \u00a0\u00a0Who granted him the boon of speech? Who gave this fleetness\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0to his feet?\n 16Through whom did he spread waters out, through whom did he\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0make Day to shine?\n \u00a0\u00a0Through whom did he enkindle Dawn and give the gift of even-\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0tide?\n 17Who set the seed in him and said, Still be the thread of life spun\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0out?\n \u00a0\u00a0Who gave him intellect besides? Who gave him voice and\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0gestic power?\n 18Through whom did he bedeck the earth, through whom did he\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0encompass heaven?\n \u00a0\u00a0Whose might made P\u016brusha surpass the mountains and created\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0things?\n 19Through whom seeks he Parjanya out, and Soma of the piercing\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0sight?\n \u00a0\u00a0Through whom belief and sacrifice? Through whom was spirit\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0laid in him?\n 20What leads him to the learned priest? What leads him to this\n \u00a0\u00a0Lord Supreme?\n \u00a0\u00a0How doth he gain this Agni? By whom hath he measured out\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0the year? p. 7\n 21He, Brahma gains the learned priest, he Brahma, gains this Lord\n \u00a0\u00a0Supreme.\n \u00a0\u00a0As Brahma, Man wins Agni here Brahma hath measured out the\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0year.\n 22Through whom doth he abide with Gods? Through whom with\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0the Celestial Tribes?\n \u00a0\u00a0Why is this other called a star? Why is this called the Real\n \u00a0\u00a0Power?\n 23Brahma inhabits with the Gods, Brahma among the Heavenly\n \u00a0\u00a0Tribes.\n \u00a0\u00a0Brahma this other star is called. Brahma is called the Real\n \u00a0\u00a0Power.\n 24By whom was this our earth disposed? By whom was heaven\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0placed over it?\n \u00a0\u00a0By whom was this expanse of air raised up on high and stre-\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0tched across?\n 25By Brahma was this earth disposed: Brahma is sky arranged\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0above.\n \u00a0\u00a0Brahma is this expanse of air lifted on high and stretched\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0across.\n 26Together, with his needle hath Atharvan sewn his head and\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0heart.\n \u00a0\u00a0And Pavam\u0101na hovered from his head on high above his brain.\n 27That is indeed Atharvan's head, the well-closed casket of the\n \u00a0\u00a0Gods.\n \u00a0\u00a0Spirit and Food and Vital Air protect that head from injury.\n 28Stationed on high, Purusha hath pervaded all regions spread\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0aloft and stretched transversely.\n \u00a0\u00a0He who knows Brahma's cattle, yea, the fort whence Purusha is\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0named,\n 29Yea, knows that fort of Brahma girt about with immortality,\n \u00a0\u00a0Brahma and Br\u0101hmas have bestowed sight, progeny, and life on\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0him.\n 30Sight leaves him not, breath quits not him before life's natural\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0decay,\n \u00a0\u00a0Who knows the fort of Brahma, yea, the fort whence Purusha\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0is named.\n 31The fort of Gods, impregnable, with circles eight and portals\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0nine, p. 8\n \u00a0\u00a0Contains a golden treasure-chest, celestial, begirt with light.\n 32Men deep in lore of Brahma know that Animated Being which\n \u00a0\u00a0Dwells in the golden treasure-chest that hath three spokes and\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0three supports.\n 33Brahma hath passed within the fort, the golden castle; ne'er\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0subdued,\n \u00a0\u00a0Bright with excessive brilliancy, compassed with glory round\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0about.","title":"Atharva Veda: Book 10: Hymn 2: Purusha, Primeval Man or humanity personified","type":"page"}