Varaha Purana — Chapter 67

VrP 67.67

भद्राश्व उवाच । भगवन् सितकृष्णे द्वे भिन्ने जगति केशवान् । स्त्रियौ बभूवतुः के द्वे सितकृष्णा च का शुभा कश्चासौ पुरुषो ब्रह्मन् य एकः सप्तधा भवेत् । कोऽसौ द्वादशधा विप्र द्विदेहः षट्शिराः शुभः दम्पत्यं च द्विजश्रेष्ठ कृतसूर्योदयादनम् । कस्मादेतज्जगदिदं विततं द्विजसत्तम अगस्त्य उवाच । सितकृष्णे स्त्रियौ ये ते ते भगिन्यौ प्रकीर्तिते । सत्यासत्ये द्विवर्णा च नारी रात्रिरुदाहृता यः पुमान् सप्तधा जात एको भूत्वा नरेश्वर । स समुद्रस्तु विज्ञेयः सप्तधैको व्यवस्थितः योऽसौ द्वादशधा राजन् द्विदेहः षट्शिराः प्रभुः । संवत्सरः स विज्ञेयः शरीरे द्वे गती स्मृते । ऋतवः षट् च वक्त्राणि एष संवत्सरः स्मृतः दम्पत्यं तदहोरात्रं सूर्याचन्द्रमसौ ततः । ततो जगत् समुत्तस्थौ देवस्यास्य नृपोत्तम स विष्णुः परमो देवो विज्ञेयो नृपसत्तम । न च वेदक्रियाहीनः पश्यते परमेश्वरम्

bhadrāśva uvāca | bhagavan sitakṛṣṇe dve bhinne jagati keśavān | striyau babhūvatuḥ ke dve sitakṛṣṇā ca kā śubhā kaścāsau puruṣo brahman ya ekaḥ saptadhā bhavet | ko'sau dvādaśadhā vipra dvidehaḥ ṣaṭśirāḥ śubhaḥ dampatyaṃ ca dvijaśreṣṭha kṛtasūryodayādanam | kasmādetajjagadidaṃ vitataṃ dvijasattama agastya uvāca | sitakṛṣṇe striyau ye te te bhaginyau prakīrtite | satyāsatye dvivarṇā ca nārī rātrirudāhṛtā yaḥ pumān saptadhā jāta eko bhūtvā nareśvara | sa samudrastu vijñeyaḥ saptadhaiko vyavasthitaḥ yo'sau dvādaśadhā rājan dvidehaḥ ṣaṭśirāḥ prabhuḥ | saṃvatsaraḥ sa vijñeyaḥ śarīre dve gatī smṛte | ṛtavaḥ ṣaṭ ca vaktrāṇi eṣa saṃvatsaraḥ smṛtaḥ dampatyaṃ tadahorātraṃ sūryācandramasau tataḥ | tato jagat samuttasthau devasyāsya nṛpottama sa viṣṇuḥ paramo devo vijñeyo nṛpasattama | na ca vedakriyāhīnaḥ paśyate parameśvaram

Bhadrāśva said: O lord, the two, white and black, (are) distinct in the world, O Keśava(?); which two became women, and who is the auspicious woman (who is both) white and black? And who, O brahmin, is that Man who, being one, becomes sevenfold? Who, O brahmin, is he who is twelvefold, with two bodies and six heads, the auspicious one? And the wedded pair, O best of the twice-born, whose eating is made at sunrise — why is this world spread out from that, O best of the twice-born? Agastya said: Those two women, white and black, are declared to be two sisters, Truth and Falsehood; and the two-coloured woman is said to be Night. The man who, having been one, was born sevenfold, O lord of men — he is to be known as the ocean, which though one is established sevenfold. He who is twelvefold, O king, the lord with two bodies and six heads — he is to be known as the year: the two bodies are held to be the two courses (of the sun), and the six seasons are its faces; this is declared to be the year. That wedded pair is day and night, and thence the sun and the moon; from this god arose the world, O best of kings. He is Viṣṇu, to be known as the supreme god, O best of kings; and one who lacks Vedic rites does not behold the supreme Lord.

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