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PURUSHA SUKTHAM
we are reading it out of context and the whole of the rest of the portion should have come in some other context. I suggest a few alternate context which will make it relevant. But the continuity of the suktha is severely hampered by such interpretation.
Verse 6
PURUSHA SACRIFICED
yatpurushena havishA | devA yajnam atanvata |
vasanto asyAsI-dAjyam | grishma idhma Saraddhavi: || 6 ||
When the Devas spread on the sacrificial offerings with Purusha as oblation, spring was its ghee [melted butter] summer the fuel, autumn the oblation.
The creation of the gods is described in RV X as follows:
"Let us celebrate with exultation the births of gods, in chanted hymns, every one of us, who may behold them in (this) later age. Brahmanaspati shaped all these (beings) like a blacksmith. In the earliest age of the gods, the existent sprang from non-existant. In the first age of the gods, the existent sprang from the nonexistent. Thereafter the different regions sprangforth from uttanapad. The earth sprang from Uttanapad; from the earth sprng the regions. Daksha sprang from Aditi; and Aditi (came) from Daksha. For Aditi was produced, she who is thy daughter, O Daksha. After her the gods came into being, blessed, sharers in immortality. When, O gods, ye moved, strongly agitated, on the water, there a violet dist issued forth from you, as from dancers, When ye, O gods, like devotees (or strenuous men) replenish the worlds, then ye disclosed the sun which had been hidden in the sea. Of the eight sons who were born from the body of aditi, she approached the gods with seven,
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