Atharvaveda · Sūkta 9.12
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9.12.1
प्रजापतिश्च परमेष्ठी च शृङ्गे इन्द्रः शिरो अग्निर्ललाटं यमः कृकाटम् ॥ ९.१२.१ ॥
Prajāpati and Parameṣṭhin are the horns; Indra the head, Agni the forehead, Yama the skull.
9.12.2
सोमो राजा मस्तिष्को द्यौरुत्तरहनुः पृथिव्यधरहनुः ॥ ९.१२.२ ॥
King Soma is the brain; Heaven the upper jaw, Earth the lower jaw.
9.12.3
विद्युज्जिह्वा मरुतो दन्ता रेवतीर्ग्रीवाः कृत्तिका स्कन्धा घर्मो वहः ॥ ९.१२.३ ॥
Lightning is the tongue; the Maruts the teeth; the Revatī stars the necks; the Kṛttikās the shoulders; Gharma the bearer.
9.12.4
विश्वं वायुः स्वर्गो लोकः कृष्णद्रं विधरणी निवेष्यः ॥ ९.१२.४ ॥
All, the wind, heaven, the world; the dark flank, the supporter, the resting place.
9.12.5
श्येनः क्रोडोऽन्तरिक्षं पाजस्यं बृहस्पतिः ककुद्बृहतीः कीकसाः ॥ ९.१२.५ ॥
The hawk is the chest; the atmosphere the vigor; Bṛhaspati the hump; the Bṛhatī the ribs.
9.12.6
देवानां पत्नीः पृष्टय उपसदः पर्शवः ॥ ९.१२.६ ॥
The wives of the gods are the flanks; the Upasads and the parśus are the ribs.
9.12.7
मित्रश्च वरुणश्चांसौ त्वष्टा चार्यमा च दोषणी महादेवो बाहू ॥ ९.१२.७ ॥
Mitra and Varuṇa are his shoulders; Tvaṣṭṛ and Aryaman his forearms; the great god Mahādeva his two arms.
9.12.8
इन्द्राणी भसद्वायुः पुच्छं पवमानो बालाः ॥ ९.१२.८ ॥
Indrāṇī is his hip-region, Vāyu his tail, and Pavamāna his hairs.
9.12.9
ब्रह्म च क्षत्रं च श्रोणी बलमूरू ॥ ९.१२.९ ॥
Brahman and Kṣatra are his two hips; Strength his two thighs.
9.12.10
धाता च सविता चाष्ठीवन्तौ जङ्घा गन्धर्वा अप्सरसः कुष्ठिका अदितिः शफाः ॥ ९.१२.१० ॥
Dhātṛ and Savitṛ are his two knees; the Gandharvas and Apsarases his two shins; the kuṣṭha plants and Aditi his hooves.
9.12.11
चेतो हृदयं यकृन् मेधा व्रतं पुरीतत् ॥ ९.१२.११ ॥
Consciousness is his heart, the liver his intellect; vow and the purītat (the membrane around the entrails) are his parts.
9.12.12
क्षुत्कुक्षिरिरा वनिष्ठुः पर्वताः प्लाशयः ॥ ९.१२.१२ ॥
Hunger is his belly, Irā (food) his stomach-lining; the mountains and the spleen are his parts.
9.12.13
क्रोधो वृक्कौ मन्युराण्डौ प्रजा शेपः ॥ ९.१२.१३ ॥
Anger is its kidneys, wrath its testicles, offspring its penis.
9.12.14
नदी सूत्री वर्षस्य पतय स्तना स्तनयित्नुरूधः ॥ ९.१२.१४ ॥
The river is its vein, the lords of rain its teats, thunder its udder.
9.12.15
विश्वव्यचाश्चर्मौषधयो लोमानि नक्षत्राणि रूपम् ॥ ९.१२.१५ ॥
Viśvavyacā is its hide, the herbs its hairs, the constellations its form.
9.12.16
देवजना गुदा मनुष्या आन्त्राण्यत्रा उदरम् ॥ ९.१२.१६ ॥
The gods' folk are its anus, humans its entrails, the atras its belly.
9.12.17
रक्षांसि लोहितमितरजना ऊबध्यम् ॥ ९.१२.१७ ॥
The demons are its blood, the other folk its omentum.
9.12.18
अभ्रं पीबो मज्जा निधनम् ॥ ९.१२.१८ ॥
The cloud is its fat, the marrow its treasure.
9.12.19
अग्निरासीन उत्थितोऽश्विना ॥ ९.१२.१९ ॥
Agni seated, the Aśvins standing up.
9.12.20
इन्द्रः प्राङ्तिष्ठन् दक्षिणा तिष्ठन् यमः ॥ ९.१२.२० ॥
Indra standing eastward, Yama standing southward.
9.12.21
प्रत्यङ्तिष्ठन् धातोदङ्तिष्ठन्त्सविता ॥ ९.१२.२१ ॥
Dhātṛ standing westward, Savitṛ standing northward.
9.12.22
तृणानि प्राप्तः सोमो राजा ॥ ९.१२.२२ ॥
Soma the king, having reached the grasses.
9.12.23
मित्र ईक्षमाण आवृत्त आनन्दः ॥ ९.१२.२३ ॥
Mitra looking on, joy turned back.
9.12.24
युज्यमानो वैश्वदेवो युक्तः प्रजापतिर्विमुक्तः सर्वम् ॥ ९.१२.२४ ॥
Vaiśvadeva being yoked, Prajāpati yoked, all released.
9.12.25
एतद्वै विश्वरूपं सर्वरूपं गोरूपम् ॥ ९.१२.२५ ॥
This indeed is the all-form, the all-shape, the form of the cow.
9.12.26
उपैनं विश्वरूपाः सर्वरूपाः पशवस्तिष्ठन्ति य एवं वेद ॥ ९.१२.२६ ॥
Near him stand the cattle of all forms and all shapes, for whoever knows it thus.