266 Srimad-Bhagavatam [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 Gayatri are the seven layers of your body, and the
Vedic religious system is the core of your heart.

TEXT 29
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mukhani pajicopanisadas tavesa
yais trimsad-astottara-mantra-vargah
yat tac chivakhyarh paramatma-tattvarn
deva svayam-jyotir avasthitis te

mukhani—faces; parica—five; upanisadah—Vedic _ literatures;
tava—your; isa—O lord; yaih—by which; trimSat-asta-uttara-mantra-
vargah—in the category of thirty-eight important Vedic mantras; yat—
that; tat—as it is; siva-akhyam—celebrated by the name Siva; parama-
dtma-tattvam—which ascertain the truth about Paramatma; deva—O
lord; svayam-jyotih—self-illuminated; avasthitih—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 Siva, is self-illuminated. You are directly situated as the
supreme truth, known as Paramatma.

PURPORT

The five mantras mentioned in this connection are as follows:
(1) Purusa, (2) Aghora, (3) Sadyojata, (4) Vamadeva, and (5) Isana.
