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VEDIC HYMNS.
MANDALA X, HYMN 121. ASHTAKA VIII, ADHYAYA 7, VARGA 3-4.
TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. 1. In the beginning there arose the Golden Child (Hiranya-garbha'); as soon as born, he alone was the lord of all that is. He stablished the earth and this heaven :-Who is the God to whom we shall offer sacrifice ?
2. He who gives breath, he who gives strength, whose command all the bright gods revere, whose shadows is immortality, whose shadow is death : Who is the God to whom we shall offer sacrifice ?
3. He who through his might became the sole king of the breathing and twinkling world, who governs all this, man and beast :-Who is the God to whom we shall offer sacrifice ?
4. He through whose might? these snowy mountains are, and the sea, they say, with the distant river (the Rasa), he of whom these regions are indeed the two arms :-Who is the God to whom we shall offer sacrifice ?
5. He through whom the awful heaven and the earth were made fast", he through whom the ether was stablished, and the firmament; he who measured the air in the sky::—Who is the God to whom we shall offer sacrifice ?
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