manusmriti

LAWS OF MANU
Hiranyagarbha, meaning the "golden fetus" or "golden womb", in one hymn of
the Rigveda (RV 10.121) is a name for the source of the creation of the
Universe. The hymn is known as hiranyagarbha sukta and presents an
important glimpse of the emerging monism, or even monotheism, in the later
Vedic period, along with the Nasadiya sukta suggesting a single creator deity
predating all other gods ("He is the God of gods, and none beside him."), in the
hymn identified as Prajapati (creator).
The Upanishads elaborate that Hiranyagarbha floated around in water in the
emptiness and the darkness of the non-existence for about a year, and then broke
into two halves which formed the Swarga and the Prithvi.
In classical Puranic Hinduism, Hiranyagarbha is a name of Brahman, so called
because he was born from a golden egg (Manusmrti 1.9)
Hiraṇyagarbha Sūkta
In the beginning was the Divinity in his splendour,
manifested as the sole Lord of land, skies, water, space and that beneath and
He upheld the earth and the heavens.
Who is the deity we shall worship with our offerings?
It is that who bestows soul-force and vigor, whose guidance all men invoke,
the Devas invoke whose shadow is immortal life and death.
Who is the deity we shall worship with our offerings?
It is that who by His greatness became the One King of the breathing and the seeing,
who is the Lord of man and bird and beast.
Who is the deity we shall worship with our offerings?
It is that through whose glory the snow-clad mountains rose,
and the ocean spread with the river, they say. His arms are the quarters of the sky.
Who is the deity we shall worship with our offerings ?
It is that through whom the heaven is strong and the earth firm,
who has steadied the light and the sky's vault,
and measured out the sphere of clouds in the mid-region.
Who is the deity we shall worship with our offering?
It is that to whom heaven and earth, placed in the light by his grace,
look up, radiant with the mind while over them the sun, rising, brightly shines.
Who is the deity we shall worship with our offerings?
When the mighty waters came, carrying the universal germ,
producing the flame of life, then dwelt there in harmony the One Spirit of the Devas.
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