I have magnified with songs of praise the Purusha white as curd, ever winning, strong and fast like a steed, Dadhikravan. May he sweeten our mouth and prolong the life we have to live.

Who flays and dissects you? Who teaches you the various texts? Who comforts your organs? And who imparts you peace?

May the Spring season, etc., in the due course of time, giver of peace, impart you necessary knowledge, and pacify you by means of the splendour of the year.

May the Half-months, and the Months fly and dissect your age and limbs. May day and night, and the Maruts granting you felicity remove your evil thoughts in order to give you peace.

May the learned Adhvaryu impart you special teaching and thereby eradicate your faults. May they examine the joints of your limbs. May the ladies in your connection impart you similar teaching.

May the Sky, Earth, Space, Air, Sun and Moon with the Stars of the heaven remove each of your faults and failings, and prepare a nice, successful world for you.

Well be it with your upper organs, well be it with your lower organs. Well be it with your bones and marrow and with all your body.

What’s the lustre like that of the Sun? What lake is equal to the sea? What is more spacious than the Earth? What is that which is beyond measure?

Brahma is lustre like the Sun. Heaven is a flood to match the ocean. The Sun is vaster than the Earth. Beyond all measure is the cow.

O friend of the gods, I enquire for information, if you in spirit has pervaded the universes? Is this whole universe contained in the three strides in which Vishnu is worshipped?

I pervade those three strides of Vishnu in which is contained this whole universe. The Earth and Heaven I circle in a moment with a part of my strength, even beyond Heaven am I.

What are the things which Purusha has entered into? What are things which Purusha has contained within him? The riddle we propose to you, O Brahman. Pray tell and unravel the mystery.

Within five things has Purusha found entrance. These things has Purusha within himself established. This is the thought I return in answer and yet you are not superior to me in wisdom.

Who knows the central point of the world? Who knows the heaven and the earth and the vast mid-region between these? Who knows the creator of the mighty Sun? Who knows the Moon and whence she was engendered?

I know the centre of this world, I know heaven and earth and the vast mid-region between them. I know the creator of the mighty Surya. I know the Moon and whence she was engendered.

I ask you of the earth’s most extreme limit. Where is the centre of the world, I question you? I ask you of the strength of the mighty Purusha? I ask the loftiest heaven where Speech abides.

This altar is the earth’s extremist limit. This sacrifice is the centre and navel of the world. This Soma, the king of herbs, is the strength of the mighty Purusha. This Brahman is the loftiest abode where Speech abides.

God who has engendered the Sun, the mighty and self-existent One, the first within the mighty flood. He laid down the timely embryo from which Prajapati was born. You all should worship him.