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905 RV.TA. have for kím (except the first time) kāú; and RV. combines kā́ ū- and pā́dā uc- ⌊AV. and RV. pada-texts, pā́dāu⌋, while TA. has kā́v and pā́dāv; Ppp. has pādāv ucyate: cf. Prāt. ii. 22 and note; ⌊also my Noun-Inflection, p. 341⌋. ⌊KaṭhaB. agrees with VS. in showing the intrusive āsīt, and with Ppp. in reading the ungrammatical ucyate.⌋

6. The Brahman was his face; the Kshatriya (rājanyà) became his (two) arms; the Vāiçya [was] his middle; from his (two) feet was born the Çūdra.

7. The moon [is] born from his mind; from his eye the sun was born; from his mouth both Indra and Agni; from his breath Vāyu was born.

8. From his navel was the atmosphere; from his head the sky came into being (sam-vṛt); from his (two) feet the earth, the quarters from his ear (çrótra): so shaped they the worlds.

9. Virāj in the beginning came into being (sam-bhū); out of Virāj, Purusha; it, when born, exceeded the earth behind, also in front.

10. When, with Purusha as oblation, the gods extended the sacrifice, spring was its sacrificial butter, summer its fuel, autumn its oblation.

11. They sprinkled with the early rain (prāvṛ́ṣ) that sacrifice, Purusha, born in the beginning; therewith the gods sacrificed, the Perfectibles (sādhyá) and they that are Vasus.

12. From that were born horses, and whatever [animals] have teeth in both jaws; kine were born from that; from that [are] born goats and sheep.