Atharvaveda · Sūkta 19.6
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19.6.1
सहस्रबाहुः पुरुषः सहस्राक्षः सहस्रपात् ।
स भूमिं विश्वतो वृत्वात्यतिष्ठद्दशाङ्गुलम् ॥ १९.६.१ ॥
The Puruṣa has a thousand arms, a thousand eyes, a thousand feet. Enveloping the earth on every side, he stood ten finger-breadths beyond it.
19.6.2
त्रिभिः पद्भिर्द्यामरोहत्पादस्येहाभवत्पुनः ।
तथा व्यक्रामद्विष्वङशनानशने अनु ॥ १९.६.२ ॥
With three feet he ascended to heaven; one foot of his came to be here again. Then he spread out in all directions, over both the eating and the non-eating.
19.6.3
तावन्तो अस्य महिमानस्ततो ज्यायांश्च पूरुषः ।
पादोऽस्य विश्वा भूतानि त्रिपादस्यामृतं दिवि ॥ १९.६.३ ॥
Such is his greatness, and the Puruṣa is greater still. One foot of him is all beings; his three-footed immortality is in heaven.
19.6.4
पुरुष एवेदं सर्वं यद्भूतं यच्च भाव्यम् ।
उतामृतत्वस्येश्वरो यदन्येनाभवत्सह ॥ १९.६.४ ॥
All this is the Puruṣa itself—what has been and what is yet to be. He is also lord of immortality, which grows together with food.
19.6.5
यत्पुरुषं व्यदधुः कतिधा व्यकल्पयन् ।
मुखं किमस्य किं बाहू किमूरू पादा उच्यते ॥ १९.६.५ ॥
When they divided the Puruṣa, into how many parts did they arrange him? What is said to be his mouth, what his arms, what his thighs and feet?
19.6.6
ब्राह्मणोऽस्य मुखमासीद्बाहू राजन्योऽभवत् ।
मध्यं तदस्य यद्वैश्यः पद्भ्यां शूद्रो अजायत ॥ १९.६.६ ॥
The brahmin was his mouth; the warrior became his arms. What is his middle became the commoner; from his feet the servant was born.
19.6.7
चन्द्रमा मनसो जातश्चक्षोः सूर्यो अजायत ।
मुखादिन्द्रश्चाग्निश्च प्राणाद्वायुरजायत ॥ १९.६.७ ॥
From the mind the moon was born; from the eye the sun was born. From the mouth Indra and Agni, from the breath Vāyu was born.
19.6.8
नाभ्या आसीदन्तरिक्षं शीर्ष्णो द्यौः समवर्तत ।
पद्भ्यां भूमिर्दिशः श्रोत्रात्तथा लोकामकल्पयन् ॥ १९.६.८ ॥
From the navel came the atmosphere; from the head the sky came into being. From the feet the earth, from the ear the directions; thus they fashioned the worlds.
19.6.9
विराडग्रे समभवद्विराजो अधि पूरुषः ।
स जातो अत्यरिच्यत पश्चाद्भूमिमथो पुरः ॥ १९.६.९ ॥
In the beginning Virāj came into being; from Virāj the Puruṣa. Having been born, he excelled; afterwards he made the earth and then the forward realm.
19.6.10
यत्पुरुषेण हविषा देवा यज्ञमतन्वत ।
वसन्तो अस्यासीदाज्यं ग्रीष्म इध्मः शरद्धविः ॥ १९.६.१० ॥
When the gods performed the sacrifice with the Puruṣa as oblation, spring was its clarified butter, summer the kindling, and autumn the oblation.
19.6.11
तं यज्ञं प्रावृषा प्रौक्षन् पुरुषं जातमग्रशः ।
तेन देवा अयजन्त साध्या वसवश्च ये ॥ १९.६.११ ॥
In the rainy season they sprinkled him, the Puruṣa born first, who is the sacrifice; by him the gods, the Sādhyas and the Vasus sacrificed.
19.6.12
तस्मादश्वा अजायन्त ये च के चोभयादतः ।
गावो ह जज्ञिरे तस्मात्तस्माज्जाता अजावयः ॥ १९.६.१२ ॥
From him horses were born, and whatever animals there are with teeth on both sides; from him cows indeed were born; from him goats and sheep were born.
19.6.13
तस्माद्यज्ञात्सर्वहुत ऋचः सामानि जज्ञिरे ।
छन्दो ह जज्ञिरे तस्माद्यजुस्तस्मादजायत ॥ १९.६.१३ ॥
From that wholly offered sacrifice were born the ṛcs and the sāmans. From it were born the metres; from it the yajus was born.
19.6.14
तस्माद्यज्ञात्सर्वहुतः संभृतं पृषदाज्यम् ।
पशूंस्तांश्चक्रे वायव्यान् आरण्या ग्राम्याश्च ये ॥ १९.६.१४ ॥
From that wholly offered sacrifice was gathered the mixture of curds and ghee. They made those animals belonging to Vāyu, both the wild and the domestic.
19.6.15
सप्तास्यासन् परिधयस्त्रिः सप्त समिधः कृताः ।
देवा यद्यज्ञं तन्वाना अबध्नन् पुरुषं पशुम् ॥ १९.६.१५ ॥
Seven were his enclosing sticks; thrice seven kindling sticks were made. When the gods, performing the sacrifice, bound the Puruṣa as the victim-animal.
19.6.16
मूर्ध्नो देवस्य बृहतो अंशवः सप्त सप्ततीः ।
राज्ञः सोमस्याजायन्त जातस्य पुरुषादधि ॥ १९.६.१६ ॥
From the head of the great god seventy-seven rays were born. Of king Soma, from the born Puruṣa, they were born.