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Him other beings approach for knowledge.<br />
d Wealth they won by offering to him<br />
The seers of old like singers in abundance,<br />
They who fashioned these beings illumined and unillumined<br />
In the expanse of space.<br />
e Ye shall not find him who produced this world;<br />
Another thing shall be betwixt you;<br />
Enveloped in mist and with stammering<br />
The singers of hymns move enjoying life.<br />
f Beyond the sky, beyond this [2] earth,<br />
Beyond the gods, what is secret from the Asuras,<br />
What germ first did the waters bear,<br />
When all the gods came together?<br />
g This germ the waters first bore,<br />
When all the gods came together;<br />
On the navel of the unborn is set the one<br />
On which doth rest all this world.<br />
h Viçvakarman, the god, was born;<br />
Then second the Gandharva;<br />
Third the father, begetter of plants [31<br />
In many a place did he deposit the germ of the waters.<br />
i Father of the eye, the sage with his mind,<br />
Produced these two worlds rich in ghee,<br />
When the fore ends were made firm,<br />
Then did sky and earth extend.<br />
k With eyes on every side, with a face on every side,<br />
With hands on every side, with feet on every side,<br />
The one god producing sky and earth<br />
Welds them together with arms, with wings.<br />
l What was the basis?<br />
Which and what his support?<br />
When producing earth [4] Viçvakarman, all-seeing,<br />
Disclosed the sky with his might.<br />
m What was the wood, and what the tree,<br />
Whence they formed sky and earth?<br />
O ye wise ones, inquire with your minds<br />
On what he stood as he supported the worlds.<br />
n Thy highest, lowest,<br />
Midmost abodes here, O Viçvakarman,<br />
In the offering do thou teach thy comrades, O faithful one;<br />
Do thou thyself sacrifice to thyself, rejoicing.<br />
o The lord of speech, Viçvakarman,<br />
Let us invoke this day to aid us [5], thought yoked for strength,<br />
May he delight in our nearest offerings,<br />
He with all healing, to aid (us), the doer of good deeds.<br />
p O Viçvakarman, waxing great with the oblation,<br />
Do thou thyself sacrifice to thyself rejoicing;<br />
May the others around, our foes, be confused;<br />
May our patrons here be rich.<br />
q O Viçvakarman, with the oblation as strengthening,<br />
Thou didst make Indra, the protector, free from scathe,<br />
To him the clans of old bowed in homage,<br />
That he might be dread, to be severally invoked.<br />
r To the ocean, the moving,<br />
Keith: Taittiriya-Samhita, Translation - Page 202 of 341