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Sāmaveda Saṃhitā (Kauthuma) 2.0.0.403

SV 2.0.0.403

सहस्रशीर्षा पुरुषः सहस्राक्षः सहस्रपात् । स भूमिं सर्वतो वृत्वात्यतिष्ठद्दशाङ्गुलम् ॥ ६१७

sahasraśīrṣā puruṣaḥ sahasrākṣaḥ sahasrapāt . sa bhūmiṃ sarvato vṛtvātyatiṣṭhaddaśāṅgulam .. 617

Devanagari rendered by HREEM from the edition's roman (IAST) text; the IAST is the edition's own.

A THOUSAND heads hath Purusa, a thousand eyes, a thousand feet. On every side pervading earth he fills a space ten fingers wide.

Translated by Ralph T. H. Griffith (1896)This is the translator's rendering of the same verse where it occurs at RV 10.90.1; the wording of this text may differ in places.

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GRETIL 1_veda/1_sam/samavedu.htm — Samaveda-Samhita, input by Anshuman Pandey (1998), complete; the file asks to be used for academic and scholarly purposes only. All 1,875 verses; verses are counted in order within each hymn (the file's line labels carry 16 typing slips) and the count is checked against the edition's 585 + 55 + 10 + 1,225; reference = part.prapāṭhaka.ardha.(daśati or hymn × 100 + verse), part 1 pūrvārcika, 2 āraṇyaka, 3 mahānāmnī, 4 uttarārcika.

GRETIL (SUB Göttingen), CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 — non-commercial use with attribution; the Companion is kept free while this corpus is held. Devanagari generated mechanically from GRETIL's IAST.

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