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Śrimad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 8, Ch. 7]
TRANSLATION
O lord, you are the three Vedas personified. The seven seas are your abdomen, and the mountains are your bones. All drugs, creepers and vegetables are the hairs on your body, the Vedic mantras like Gāyatri are the seven layers of your body, and the Vedic religious system is the core of your heart.
TEXT 29
मुखानि पञ्चोपनिषदस्तवेश 
  यैस्त्रिशदष्टोत्तरमन्त्रवर्गः । 
  यत् तच्छिवाख्यं परमात्मतत्त्वं 
  देव स्वयंज्योतिरवस्थितिस्ते ॥२९॥
mukhāni pañcopaniṣadas taveśa 
  yais triṁśad-aṣṭottara-mantra-vargaḥ 
  yat tac chivākhyaṁ paramātma-tattvaṁ 
  deva svayaṁ-jyotir avasthitis te
mukhāni—faces; pañca—five; upaniṣadaḥ—Vedic literatures; tava—your; īśa—O lord; yaiḥ—by which; triṁśat-aṣṭa-uttara-mantra-vargaḥ—in the category of thirty-eight important Vedic mantras; yat—that; tat—as it is; śiva-ākhyam—celebrated by the name Śiva; paramātma-tattvam—which ascertain the truth about Paramātmā; deva—O lord; svayaṁ-jyotiḥ—self-illuminated; avasthitiḥ—situation; te—of Your Lordship.
TRANSLATION
O lord, the five important Vedic mantras are represented by your five faces, from which the thirty-eight most celebrated Vedic mantras have been generated. Your Lordship, being celebrated as Lord Śiva, is self-illuminated. You are directly situated as the supreme truth, known as Paramātmā.
PURPORT
The five mantras mentioned in this connection are as follows: 
  (1)  Puruṣa , (2)  Aghora , (3)  Sadyojāta , (4)  Vāmadeva , and (5)  Īśāna .