Atharvaveda Samhita — Kanda 19 — Chapter 6

AV 19 6.1

सहस्रबाहुः पुरुषः सहस्राक्षः सहस्रपात् । स भूमिं विश्वतो वृत्वात्य् अतिष्ठद् दशाङ्गुलम्

sahasrabāhuḥ puruṣaḥ sahasrākṣaḥ sahasrapāt | sa bhūmiṃ viśvato vṛtvāty atiṣṭhad daśāṅgulam

The Puruṣa with a thousand arms, with a thousand eyes, with a thousand feet — having covered the earth on every side, he stood beyond by ten fingers' breadth.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

AV 19 6.2

त्रिभिः पद्भिर् द्याम् अरोहत् पाद् अस्येहाभवत् पुनः । तथा व्य् अक्रामद् विष्वङ् अशनानशने अनु

tribhiḥ padbhir dyām arohat pād asyehābhavat punaḥ | tathā vy akrāmad viṣvaṅ aśanānaśane anu

With three feet he climbed to heaven; one foot of his came to be here again. Then he strode apart in all directions, over what eats and what does not eat.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

AV 19 6.3

तावन्तो अस्य महिमानस् ततो ज्यायांश् च पूरुषः । पादो ऽस्य विश्वा भूतानि त्रिपाद् अस्यामृतं दिवि

tāvanto asya mahimānas tato jyāyāṃś ca pūruṣaḥ | pādo 'sya viśvā bhūtāni tripād asyāmṛtaṃ divi

So great are his greatnesses, and greater than that is the Puruṣa. One foot of his (is) all beings; three feet of his (are) the immortal in heaven.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

AV 19 6.4

पुरुष एवेदं सर्वं यद् भूतं यच् च भाव्यम् । उतामृतत्वस्येश्वरो यद् अन्येनाभवत् सह

puruṣa evedaṃ sarvaṃ yad bhūtaṃ yac ca bhāvyam | utāmṛtatvasyeśvaro yad anyenābhavat saha

The Puruṣa alone is all this, what has been and what is to be; and (he is) lord of immortality, which he became together with the other.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

AV 19 6.5

यत् पुरुषं व्य् अदधुः कतिधा व्य् अकल्पयन् । मुखं किम् अस्य किम् बाहू किम् ऊरू पादा उच्यते

yat puruṣaṃ vy adadhuḥ katidhā vy akalpayan | mukhaṃ kim asya kim bāhū kim ūrū pādā ucyate

When they distributed the Puruṣa, into how many parts did they arrange (him)? What is his mouth, what the arms, what are the thighs, the feet called?

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

AV 19 6.6

ब्राह्मणो ऽस्य मुखम् आसीद् बाहू राजन्यो ऽभवत् । मध्यं तद् अस्य यद् वैश्यः पद्भ्यां शूद्रो अजायत

brāhmaṇo 'sya mukham āsīd bāhū rājanyo 'bhavat | madhyaṃ tad asya yad vaiśyaḥ padbhyāṃ śūdro ajāyata

The brāhmaṇa was his mouth; the rājanya became the arms; what the vaiśya is, that (was) his middle; from the feet the śūdra was born.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

AV 19 6.7

चन्द्रमा मनसो जातश् चक्षोः सूर्यो अजायत । मुखाद् इन्द्रश् चाग्निश् च प्राणाद् वायुर् अजायत

candramā manaso jātaś cakṣoḥ sūryo ajāyata | mukhād indraś cāgniś ca prāṇād vāyur ajāyata

The moon was born from (his) mind; from the eye the sun was born; from the mouth Indra and Agni; from the breath Vāyu was born.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

AV 19 6.8

नाभ्या आसीद् अन्तरिक्षं शीर्ष्णो द्यौः सम् अवर्तत । पद्भ्यां भूमिर् दिशः श्रोत्रात् तथा लोकाꣳ अकल्पयन्

nābhyā āsīd antarikṣaṃ śīrṣṇo dyauḥ sam avartata | padbhyāṃ bhūmir diśaḥ śrotrāt tathā lokāṁ akalpayan

From the navel came the midspace; from the head the sky arose; from the feet the earth, the directions from the ear — thus they arranged the worlds.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

AV 19 6.9

विराड् अग्रे सम् अभवद् विराजो अधि पूरुषः । स जातो अत्य् अरिच्यत पश्चाद् भूमिम् अथो पुरः

virāḍ agre sam abhavad virājo adhi pūruṣaḥ | sa jāto aty aricyata paścād bhūmim atho puraḥ

Virāj came into being first; from Virāj (came) Puruṣa. Being born, he extended beyond the earth, behind and also in front.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

AV 19 6.10

यत् पुरुषेण हविषा देवा यज्ञम् अतन्वत । वसन्तो अस्यासीद् आज्यं ग्रीष्म इध्मः शरद् धविः

yat puruṣeṇa haviṣā devā yajñam atanvata | vasanto asyāsīd ājyaṃ grīṣma idhmaḥ śarad dhaviḥ

When the gods stretched out the sacrifice with Puruṣa as the oblation, spring was its melted butter, summer the firewood, autumn the offering.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

AV 19 6.11

तं यज्ञं प्रावृषा प्रौक्षन् पुरुषं जातम् अग्रशः । तेन देवा अयजन्त साध्या वसवश् च ये

taṃ yajñaṃ prāvṛṣā praukṣan puruṣaṃ jātam agraśaḥ | tena devā ayajanta sādhyā vasavaś ca ye

That sacrifice, Puruṣa born at the beginning, they sprinkled with the rainy season; with him the gods sacrificed, and the Sādhyas and the Vasus who are.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

AV 19 6.12

तस्माद् अश्वा अजायन्त ये च के चोभयादतः । गावो ह जज्ञिरे तस्मात् तस्माज् जाता अजावयः

tasmād aśvā ajāyanta ye ca ke cobhayādataḥ | gāvo ha jajñire tasmāt tasmāj jātā ajāvayaḥ

From that were born horses, and whatever have teeth in both (jaws); cattle indeed were born from that, from that were born goats and sheep.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

AV 19 6.13

तस्माद् यज्ञात् सर्वहुत ऋचः सामानि जज्ञिरे । छन्दो ह जज्ञिरे तस्माद् यजुस् तस्माद् अजायत

tasmād yajñāt sarvahuta ṛcaḥ sāmāni jajñire | chando ha jajñire tasmād yajus tasmād ajāyata

From that sacrifice, the wholly-offered, the ṛcs and the sāmans were born; the metres were born from that, the yajus was born from that.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

AV 19 6.14

तस्माद् यज्ञात् सर्वहुतः संभृतं पृषदाज्यम् । पशूंस् तांश् चक्रे वायव्यान् आरण्या ग्राम्याश् च ये

tasmād yajñāt sarvahutaḥ saṃbhṛtaṃ pṛṣadājyam | paśūṃs tāṃś cakre vāyavyān āraṇyā grāmyāś ca ye

From that sacrifice, the wholly-offered, the speckled butter was gathered together; he made those animals belonging to the wind, both those of the forest and those of the village.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

AV 19 6.15

सप्तास्यासन् परिधयस् त्रिः सप्त समिधः कृताः । देवा यद् यज्ञं तन्वाना अबध्नन् पुरुषं पशुम्

saptāsyāsan paridhayas triḥ sapta samidhaḥ kṛtāḥ | devā yad yajñaṃ tanvānā abadhnan puruṣaṃ paśum

Seven were its enclosing sticks, thrice seven the kindling sticks made, when the gods, stretching out the sacrifice, bound Puruṣa as the sacrificial animal.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

AV 19 6.16

मूर्ध्नो देवस्य बृहतो अंशवः सप्त सप्ततीः । राज्ञः सोमस्याजायन्त जातस्य पुरुषाद् अधि

mūrdhno devasya bṛhato aṃśavaḥ sapta saptatīḥ | rājñaḥ somasyājāyanta jātasya puruṣād adhi

From the head of the great god, seven and seventy rays of king Soma were born—(born) from the born Puruṣa.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain