Text 32] The Payo-vrata Process of Worship
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five for acquiring knowledge), the five sense objects, and contaminated consciousness. These are the subject matter of  sāṅkhya-yoga , which was inaugurated by Lord Kapiladeva. This  sāṅkhya-yoga  was again propounded by another Kapila, but he was an atheist, and his system is not accepted as bona fide.
TEXT 31
नमो द्विशीर्ष्णे त्रिपदे चतुःशृङ्गाय तन्त्रवे । सप्तहस्ताय यज्ञाय त्रयीविद्यात्मने नमः ॥३१॥
namo dvi-śīrṣṇe tri-pade catuḥ-śṛṅgāya tantave sapta-hastāya yajñāya trayī-vidyātmane namaḥ
namaḥ —I offer my respectful obeisances unto You;  dvi-śīrṣṇe —who have two heads;  tri-pade —who have three legs;  catuḥ-śṛṅgāya —who have four horns;  tantave —who expand;  sapta-hastāya —who have seven hands;  yajñāya —unto the  yajña-puruṣa , the supreme enjoyer;  trayī —the three modes of Vedic ritualistic ceremonies;  vidyā-ātmane —the Personality of Godhead, the embodiment of all knowledge;  namaḥ —I offer my respectful obeisances unto You.
TRANSLATION
I offer my respectful obeisances unto You, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who have two heads [prāyaṇīya and udāyaṇīya], three legs [savana-traya], four horns [the four Vedas] and seven hands [the seven chandas, such as Gāyatrī]. I offer my obeisances unto You, whose heart and soul are the three Vedic rituals [karma-kāṇḍa, jñāna-kāṇḍa and upāsanā-kāṇḍa] and who expand these rituals in the form of sacrifice.
TEXT 32
नमः शिवाय रुद्राय नमः शक्तिधराय च । सर्वविद्याधिपतये भूतानां पतये नमः ॥३२॥