Adhyāya 31: Puruṣasūkta and related hymns

Y PuBtJSHA hath a thousand heada^ a thousand eyes, a thou- sand feet.

iPurusha is in truth this All, what liath been and what yet

So mighty in his grandeur; yea, greater than this ia Pilrusha. All creatures are one fourth of him, three fourths eternal

With tbroe fourths Purusha irose up : one fourth of him again was here. Theoot be moved forth to every side oyer what eats not and what eats.

J V ^WhcA borQi h» spfead to woftt and east beyond the bound- aries of earth.

From that great General Sacrifice Biohaa and Sl^ma hymns

From it #ere horses bora, from it all cattle with two rows

They balmed as victim on the grass Purusha bom in earliest

When they divided Purasha how many portions did they make?

The Br&hman was his mouth, of both his arms was the

The Moon was gendered from his mind, and from his eye

Forth from his navel came mid-air ; the sky was fashioned

When Gods performed the sacrifice with Purusha as offering Spring was the butter, Autumn the oblation, Summer was

Then seven were his enclosing-sticks, his kindling^brands

Gods, sacrificing, sacrificed the victim: these were the earli-

In the beginning he was formed, collected from waters, earth,

I know this mighty Purtisha whose colour is like the Sun,

In the womb moves Prajllpati: he, never becoming born, is

He who gives light and heat to Gods, first, foremost Agent

Thus spake the Gods at first, as they begat the bright and

Beauty and Fortune are thy wives : each side of thee are