{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/rigveda/rv10090.htm","path":"hin/rigveda/rv10090.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/rigveda/rv10090.htm","text":"Rig Veda, tr. by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1896]\n1. A THOUSAND heads hath Puru\u1e63a, a thousand eyes, a thousand feet.\n On every side pervading earth he fills a space ten fingers wide.\n 2 This Puru\u1e63a is all that yet hath been and all that is to be;\n The Lord of Immortality which waxes greater still by food.\n 3 So mighty is his greatness; yea, greater than this is Puru\u1e63a.\n All creatures are one-fourth of him, three-fourths eternal life in heaven.\n 4 With three-fourths Puru\u1e63a went up: one-fourth of him again was here.\n Thence he strode out to every side over what cats not and what cats.\n 5 From him Vir\u0101j was born; again Puru\u1e63a from Vir\u0101j was born.\n As soon as he was born he spread eastward and westward o\u2019er the earth.\n 6 When Gods prepared the sacrifice with Puru\u1e63a as their offering,\n Its oil was spring, the holy gift was autumn; summer was the wood.\n 7 They balmed as victim on the grass Puru\u1e63a born in earliest time.\n With him the Deities and all S\u0101dhyas and \u1e5a\u1e63is sacrificed.\n 8 From that great general sacrifice the dripping fat was gathered up.\n He formed the creatures of-the air, and animals both wild and tame.\n 9 From that great general sacrifice \u1e5acas and S\u0101ma-hymns were born:\n Therefrom were spells and charms produced; the Yajus had its birth from it.\n 10 From it were horses born, from it all cattle with two rows of teeth:\n From it were generated kine, from it the goats and sheep were born.\n 11 When they divided Puru\u1e63a how many portions did they make?\n What do they call his mouth, his arms? What do they call his thighs and feet?\n 12 The Brahman was his mouth, of both his arms was the R\u0101janya made.\n His thighs became the Vai\u015bya, from his feet the \u015a\u016bdra was produced.\n 13 The Moon was gendered from his mind, and from his eye the Sun had birth;\n Indra and Agni from his mouth were born, and V\u0101yu from his breath.\n 14 Forth from his navel came mid-air the sky was fashioned from his head\n Earth from his feet, and from his car the regions. Thus they formed the worlds.\n 15 Seven fencing-sticks had he, thrice seven layers of fuel were prepared,\n When the Gods, offering sacrifice, bound, as their victim, Puru\u1e63a.\n 16 Gods, sacrificing, sacrificed the victim these were the earliest holy ordinances.\n The Mighty Ones attained the height of heaven, there where the S\u0101dhyas, Gods of old, are dwelling.","title":"Rig Veda: Rig-Veda, Book 10: HYMN XC. Puru\u1e63a.","type":"page"}