Atharvaveda · Sūkta 10.2
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10.2.1
केन पार्ष्णी आभृते पूरुषस्य केन मांसं संभृतं केन गुल्फौ ।
केनाङ्गुलीः पेशनीः केन खानि केनोच्छ्लङ्खौ मध्यतः कः प्रतिष्ठाम् ॥ १०.२.१ ॥
By what were the heels of the person fixed? By what was the flesh gathered, by what the ankles; by what the fingers, the pliant parts, by what the openings, by what the two raised parts, and who set the support in the middle?
10.2.2
कस्मान् नु गुल्फावधरावकृण्वन्न् अष्ठीवन्तावुत्तरौ पूरुषस्य ।
जङ्घे निर्ऋत्य न्यदधुः क्व स्विज्जानुनोः संधी क उ तच्चिकेत ॥ १०.२.२ ॥
From what did they make the lower ankles of the person, and the upper knees? From Nirṛti they placed the shins; where are the joints of the knees? Who knows that?
10.2.3
चतुष्टयं युजते संहितान्तं जानुभ्यामूर्ध्वं शिथिरं कबन्धम् ।
श्रोणी यदूरू क उ तज्जजान याभ्यां कुसिन्धं सुदृढं बभूव ॥ १०.२.३ ॥
A set of four is joined, ending in a joined compound; upward from the knees, the loose trunk. Who produced the hips and the thighs? By whom was the kusindha, the pelvic frame, made very firm?
10.2.4
कति देवाः कतमे त आसन् य उरो ग्रीवाश्चिक्युः पुरुषस्य ।
कति स्तनौ व्यदधुः कः कफोदौ कति स्कन्धान् कति पृष्टीरचिन्वन् ॥ १०.२.४ ॥
How many gods were there, and which ones, who set the chest and necks of the person? How many breasts did they place, who placed the shoulder-blades? How many shoulders and how many ribs did they arrange?
10.2.5
को अस्य बाहू समभरद्वीर्यां करवादिति ।
अंसौ को अस्य तद्देवः कुसिन्धे अध्या दधौ ॥ १०.२.५ ॥
Who bore up its arms, thinking, "I shall make it with strength"? What god took its shoulders and set them upon the kusindha?
10.2.6
कः सप्त खानि वि ततर्द शीर्षणि कर्णाविमौ नासिके चक्षणी मुखम् ।
येषां पुरुत्रा विजयस्य मह्ननि चतुष्पादो द्विपदो यन्ति यामम् ॥ १०.२.६ ॥
Who bored the seven openings in the head: the two ears, these two nostrils, the two eyes, and the mouth? By whose great deeds of victory do the four-footed and the two-footed go on their way in many places? Who is he?
10.2.7
हन्वोर्हि जिह्वामदधात्पुरूचीमधा महीमधि शिश्राय वाचम् ।
स आ वरीवर्ति भुवनेष्वन्तरपो वसानः क उ तच्चिकेत ॥ १०.२.७ ॥
In the two jaws he placed the tongue, many-directed, and upon that great speech he settled. Clothed in the waters, he turns about among the worlds. Who truly knows that?
10.2.8
मस्तिष्कमस्य यतमो ललाटं ककाटिकां प्रथमो यः कपालम् ।
चित्वा चित्यं हन्वोः पूरुषस्य दिवं रुरोह कतमः स देवः ॥ १०.२.८ ॥
Who made his brain, forehead, nape, and first of all the skull? Who is that god who, having piled the fire-altar (citya) on the jaws of the puruṣa, mounted up to heaven?
10.2.9
प्रियाप्रियाणि बहुला स्वप्नं संबाधतन्द्र्यः ।
आनन्दान् उग्रो नन्दांश्च कस्माद्वहति पूरुषः ॥ १०.२.९ ॥
Many pleasant and unpleasant things, dream, and oppressive drowsiness — joys and delights: from what does the fierce puruṣa carry them?
10.2.10
आर्तिरवर्तिर्निर्ऋतिः कुतो नु पुरुषेऽमतिः ।
राद्धिः समृद्धिरव्यृद्धिर्मतिरुदितयः कुतः ॥ १०.२.१० ॥
Distress, aversion, ruin — whence did these arise in the puruṣa? Folly, success, prosperity, undiminished growth, understanding, and rising — whence are these?
10.2.11
को अस्मिन्न् आपो व्यदधात्विषूवृतः पुरूवृतः सिन्धुसृत्याय जाताः ।
तीव्रा अरुणा लोहिनीस्ताम्रधूम्रा ऊर्ध्वा अवाचीः पुरुषे तिरश्चीः ॥ १०.२.११ ॥
Who placed the waters in this Puruṣa, enveloped like an arrow-shaft, much-enveloped, born for the flowing of the rivers? Sharp, reddish, ruddy, copper-smoky, moving upward, moving downward, running across in the Puruṣa.
10.2.12
को अस्मिन् रूपमदधात्को मह्मानं च नाम च ।
गातुं को अस्मिन् कः केतुं कश्चरित्रानि पूरुषे ॥ १०.२.१२ ॥
Who placed form in this Puruṣa, and greatness and name? Who placed the path in him, who the sign, who the movements of deeds in the Puruṣa?
10.2.13
को अस्मिन् प्राणमवयत्को अपानं व्यानमु ।
समानमस्मिन् को देवोऽधि शिश्राय पूरुषे ॥ १०.२.१३ ॥
Who wove breath in this Puruṣa? Who wove the out-breath and the diffused breath? And which god rested upon the Puruṣa as the equalizing breath in him?
10.2.14
को अस्मिन् यज्ञमदधादेको देवोऽधि पूरुषे ।
को अस्मिन्त्सत्यं कोऽनृतं कुतो मृत्युः कुतोऽमृतम् ॥ १०.२.१४ ॥
Who placed the sacrifice in this Puruṣa? One god, upon the Puruṣa. Who placed truth in him, who falsehood? Whence death, whence immortality?
10.2.15
को अस्मै वासः पर्यदधात्को अस्यायुरकल्पयत् ।
बलं को अस्मै प्रायच्छत्को अस्याकल्पयज्जवम् ॥ १०.२.१५ ॥
Who clothed him with a garment? Who fashioned his life-span? Who gave him strength? Who fashioned his swiftness?
10.2.16
केनापो अन्वतनुत केनाहरकरोद्रुचे ।
उषसं केनान्वैन्द्ध केन सायंभवं ददे ॥ १०.२.१६ ॥
By whom were the waters stretched out? By whom was the day made for brightness? By whom was Dawn kindled? By whom was the evening-born taken up?
10.2.17
को अस्मिन् रेतो न्यदधात्तन्तुरा तायतामिति ।
मेधां को अस्मिन्न् अध्यौहत्को बाणं को नृतो दधौ ॥ १०.२.१७ ॥
Who placed seed in this, that the thread might be stretched? Who drew intelligence into it? Who upheld the arrow, who upheld the dancer?
10.2.18
केनेमां भूमिमौर्णोत्केन पर्यभवद्दिवम् ।
केनाभि मह्ना पर्वतान् केन कर्माणि पुरुषः ॥ १०.२.१८ ॥
By what did he cover this earth, by what did he surpass heaven? By what, with his greatness, the mountains; by what, the deeds — the Person?
10.2.19
केन पर्जन्यमन्वेति केन सोमं विचक्षणम् ।
केन यज्ञं च श्रद्धां च केनास्मिन् निहितं मनः ॥ १०.२.१९ ॥
By what does one follow the rain-cloud, by what the all-seeing Soma? By what sacrifice and faith, and by what is mind placed in him?
10.2.20
केन श्रोत्रियमाप्नोति केनेमं परमेष्ठिनम् ।
केनेममग्निं पूरुषः केन संवत्सरं ममे ॥ १०.२.२० ॥
By what does one attain the learned priest, by what this Supreme Lord? By what does the Person measure this fire, by what the year?
10.2.21
ब्रह्म श्रोत्रियमाप्नोति ब्रह्मेमं परमेष्ठिनम् ।
ब्रह्मेममग्निं पूरुषो ब्रह्म संवत्सरं ममे ॥ १०.२.२१ ॥
By Brahman one attains the learned priest, by Brahman this Supreme Lord. By Brahman the Person measures this fire, by Brahman the year.
10.2.22
केन देवामनु क्षियति केन दैवजनीर्विशः ।
केनेदमन्यन् नक्षत्रं केन सत्क्षत्रमुच्यते ॥ १०.२.२२ ॥
By what does he dwell among the gods, by what the peoples of the divine folk? By what is this other star, by what is true sovereignty named?
10.2.23
ब्रह्म देवामनु क्षियति ब्रह्म दैवजनीर्विशः ।
ब्रह्मेदमन्यन् नक्षत्रं ब्रह्म सत्क्षत्रमुच्यते ॥ १०.२.२३ ॥
Brahman dwells among the gods, Brahman among the peoples of the divine folk. Brahman is in this other star; Brahman is called true sovereignty.
10.2.24
केनेयं भूमिर्विहिता केन द्यौरुत्तरा हिता ।
केनेदमूर्ध्वं तिर्यक्चान्तरिक्षं व्यचो हितम् ॥ १०.२.२४ ॥
By what was this earth established? By what was the upper heaven fixed? By what was this atmosphere, extending upward and across, set out in its wide expanse?
10.2.25
ब्रह्मणा भूमिर्विहिता ब्रह्म द्यौरुत्तरा हिता ।
ब्रह्मेदमूर्ध्वं तिर्यक्चान्तरिक्षं व्यचो हितम् ॥ १०.२.२५ ॥
By Brahman this earth was established; by Brahman the upper heaven was fixed. By Brahman itself this atmosphere, extending upward and across, was set out in its wide expanse.
10.2.26
मूर्धानमस्य संसीव्याथर्वा हृदयं च यत् ।
मस्तिष्कादूर्ध्वः प्रैरयत्पवमानोऽधि शीर्षतः ॥ १०.२.२६ ॥
Atharvan sewed together its head and also the heart; from the brain upward, from above the head, the purifying wind drove the breath forward.
10.2.27
तद्वा अथर्वणः शिरो देवकोशः समुब्जितः ।
तत्प्राणो अभि रक्षति शिरो अन्नमथो मनः ॥ १०.२.२७ ॥
That is the head of Atharvan, the treasure-house of the gods, fully closed. Breath guards it all around — the head, the food, and the mind.
10.2.28
ऊर्ध्वो नु सृष्टा३ तिर्यङ्नु सृष्टा३ सर्वा दिशः पुरुष आ बभूवा३ ।
पुरं यो ब्रह्मणो वेद यस्याः पुरुष उच्यते ॥ १०.२.२८ ॥
Created upward and created across — in all directions the Puruṣa has come to be. He who knows the city of Brahman, of which the city is called Puruṣa.
10.2.29
यो वै तां ब्रह्मणो वेदामृतेनावृतां पुरम् ।
तस्मै ब्रह्म च ब्राह्माश्च चक्षुः प्राणं प्रजां ददुः ॥ १०.२.२९ ॥
He who knows that city of Brahman, enveloped in immortality, to him they gave Brahman and the brahmins, sight, breath and offspring.
10.2.30
न वै तं चक्षुर्जहाति न प्राणो जरसः पुरा ।
पुरं यो ब्रह्मणो वेद यस्याः पुरुष उच्यते ॥ १०.२.३० ॥
Sight does not leave him, nor breath, before old age. He who knows the city of Brahman, which is called Puruṣa.
10.2.31
अष्टाचक्रा नवद्वारा देवानां पूरयोध्या ।
तस्यां हिरण्ययः कोशः स्वर्गो ज्योतिषावृतः ॥ १०.२.३१ ॥
The unconquerable city of the gods, with eight wheels and nine gates; in it is a golden sheath, a heaven enveloped in light.
10.2.32
तस्मिन् हिरण्यये कोशे त्र्यरे त्रिप्रतिष्ठिते ।
तस्मिन् यद्यक्षमात्मन्वत्तद्वै ब्रह्मविदो विदुः ॥ १०.२.३२ ॥
In that golden sheath, which rests on three supports with three spokes, the wonder that possesses a self — that the knowers of Brahman know.
10.2.33
प्रभ्राजमानां हरिणीं यशसा संपरीवृताम् ।
पुरं हिरण्ययीं ब्रह्मा विवेशापराजिताम् ॥ १०.२.३३ ॥
Shining, tawny like a deer, wholly enveloped in glory, golden, the unconquerable city — Brahman entered it.