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White Yajurveda, Book XXXIशुक्लयजुर्वेद अध्याय ३१
22 verses. Sanskrit beside Ralph T. H. Griffith’s English (1899).
Verse: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22
Sanskrit
स भूमिꣳ सर्वत स्पृत्वात्य् अतिष्ठद् दशाङ्गुलम् ॥
English Griffith 1899
PURUSHA hath a thousand heads, a thousand eyes, a
thousand feet.
Pervading earth on every side he fills a space ten fingers
broad.
Sanskrit
उतामृतत्वस्येशानो यद् अन्नेनातिरोहति ॥
English Griffith 1899
Purusha is in truth this All, what hath been and what yet
shall be;
Lord, too, of immortality which waxes greater still by food.
Sanskrit
पादो ऽस्य विश्वा भूतानि त्रिपाद् अस्यामृतं दिवि ॥
English Griffith 1899
So mighty in his grandeur; yea, greater than this is Purusha.
All creatures are one fourth of him, three fourths eternal
life in heaven.
Sanskrit
ततो विष्वङ् व्यक्रामत् साशनानशने ऽ अभि ॥
English Griffith 1899
With three fourths Purusha rose up: one fourth of him
again was here.
Thence he moved forth to every side over what eats not
and what eats.
Sanskrit
स जातो ऽ अत्य् अरिच्यत पश्चाद् भूमिम् अथो पुरः ॥
English Griffith 1899
From him Virâj was born; again Purusha from Virâj was
born.
When born, he spread to west and east beyond the boundaries
of earth.
Sanskrit
पशूꣳस् ताꣳश् चक्रे वायव्यान् आरण्या ग्राम्याश् च ये ॥
English Griffith 1899
From that great General Sacrifice the dripping fat was
gathered up.
He formed the creatures of the air and animals both wild
and tame.
Sanskrit
छन्दाꣳसि जज्ञिरे तस्माद् यजुस् तस्माद् अजायत ॥
English Griffith 1899
From that great General Sacrifice Richas and Sâma hymns
were born:
Therefrom were spells and charms produced; the Yajus
had its birth from it.
Sanskrit
गावो ह जज्ञिरे तस्मात् तस्माज् जाता ऽ अजावयः ॥
English Griffith 1899
From it were horses born, from it all cattle with two rows
of teeth
From it were generated kine, from it were goats and sheep
produced.
Sanskrit
तेन देवा ऽ अयजन्त साध्या ऽ ऋषयश् च ये ॥
English Griffith 1899
They balmed as victim on the grass Purusha born in earliest
time.
With him the Deities and all Sâdhyas and Rishis sacrificed.
Sanskrit
मुखं किम् अस्य कौ बाहू का ऊरू पादा ऽ उच्येते ॥
English Griffith 1899
When they divided Purusha how many portions did they
make?
What was his mouth? what were his arms? what are the
names of thighs and feet?
Sanskrit
ऊरू तद् अस्य यद् वैश्यः पद्भ्याꣳ शूद्रो ऽ अजायत ॥
English Griffith 1899
The Brâhman was his mouth, of both his arms was the
Râjanya made.
His thighs became the Vaisya, from his feet the Sûdra was
produced.
Sanskrit
श्रोत्राद् वायुश् च प्राणश् च मुखाद् अग्निर् अजायत ॥
English Griffith 1899
The Moon was gendered from his mind, and from his eye
the Sun had birth;
Vâyu and Prâna from his ear, and from his mouth was Agni
born.
Sanskrit
पद्भ्यां भूमिर् दिशः श्रोत्रात् तथा लोकाꣳऽ अकल्पयन् ॥
English Griffith 1899
Forth from his navel came mid-air; the sky was fashioned
from his head;
Earth from his feet, and from his ear the Quarters. Thus
they formed the worlds.
Sanskrit
वसन्तो ऽस्यासीद् आज्यं ग्रीष्म ऽ इध्मः शरद् धविः ॥
English Griffith 1899
When Gods performed the sacrifice with Purusha as offering
Spring was the butter, Autumn the oblation, Summer was
the wood.
Sanskrit
देवा यद् यज्ञं तन्वाना ऽ अबध्नन् पुरुषं पशुम् ॥
English Griffith 1899
Then seven were his enclosing-sticks, his kindling-brands
were three times seven,
When Gods, performing sacrifice, bound as their victim
Purusha.
Sanskrit
ते ह नाकं महिमानः सचन्त यत्र पूर्वे साध्याः सन्ति देवाः ॥
English Griffith 1899
Gods, sacrificing, sacrificed the victim: these were the earliest
holy ordinances.
The Mighty Ones attained the height of heaven, there where
the Sâdhyas, Gods of old, are dwelling.
Sanskrit
तस्य त्वष्टा विदधद् रूपम् एति तन् मर्त्यस्य देवत्वम् आजानम् अग्रे ॥
English Griffith 1899
In the beginning he was formed, collected from waters, earth,
and Visvakarman's essence.
Fixing the form thereof Tvashtar proceedeth. This was at
first the mortal's birth and godhead.
Sanskrit
तम् एव विदित्वाति मृत्युम् एति नान्यः पन्था विद्यते ऽयनाय ॥
English Griffith 1899
I know this mighty Purusha whose colour is like the Sun,
beyond the reach of darkness.
He only who knows him leaves Death behind him. There is
no path save this alone to travel.
Sanskrit
तस्य योनिं परि पश्यन्ति धीरास् तस्मिन् ह तस्थुर् भुवनानि विश्वा ॥
English Griffith 1899
In the womb moves Prajâpati: he, never becoming born, is
born in sundry figures.
The wise discern the womb from which he springeth. In
him alone stand all existing creatures.
Sanskrit
पूर्वो यो देवेभ्यो जातो नमो रुचाय ब्राह्मये ॥
English Griffith 1899
He who gives light and heat to Gods, first, foremost Agent
of the Gods,
Born ere the Gods—to him the bright, the holy One, be
reverence
Sanskrit
यस् त्वैवं ब्राह्मणो विद्यात् तस्य देवा ऽ असन् वशे ॥
English Griffith 1899
Thus spake the Gods at first, as they begat the bright and
holy One:
The Brahman who may know thee thus shall have the Gods
in his control.
Sanskrit
इष्णन्न् इषाणामुं म ऽ इषाण सर्वलोकं म ऽ इषाण ॥
English Griffith 1899
Beauty and Fortune are thy wives: each side of thee are
Day and Night.
The constellations are thy form: the Asvins are thine open
jaws.
Wishing, wish yonder world for me, wish that the Universe
be mine.