or plate whence to take his food.  Thou art he who is possessed of an adamantine body.  Thou art exceedingly great.  Thou art of the form of an umbrella.  Thou art he who has an excellent umbrella.  Thou art well-known to be identical with all creatures.  Thou art he who having put forth three feet covered all the universe with two and wanted space for the remaining one.  Thou art he whose head is bald.  Thou art he whose form is exceedingly ugly and fierce.  Thou art he who has undergone infinite modifications and become all things in the universe.  Thou art he who bears the well-known badge of Sanyasa, viz., the stick.  Thou art he who has a Kunda.  Thou art he who is incapable of being attained to by means of acts.  Thou art he who is identical with the green-eyed king of beasts (viz., the lion).  Thou art of the form of all the points of the compass.  Thou art he who is armed with the thunder.  Thou art he who has a hundred tongues.  Thou art he who has a thousand feet and thousand heads.[169] Thou art the lord and chief of the celestials.  Thou art he that is made up of all the gods.  Thou art the great Master or preceptor.  Thou art he who has a thousand arms.  Thou art he who is competent to obtain the fruition of every wish.  Thou art he whose protection is sought by every one.  Thou art he who is the creator of all the worlds.  Thou art he who is the great cleanser of all from every kind of sin, in the form of shrines and sacred waters.  Thou art he who has three high Mantras.[170] Thou art the youngest son of Aditi and Kasyapa, (being in the form of the dwarf who is otherwise known by the name of Upendra and who beguiled the Asura Vali of his lordship of the three worlds and restored it to the chief of the celestials).  Thou art both black and tawny (being of the form which is known as Hari-Hara).  Thou art the maker of the Brahmana’s rod.[171] Thou art armed with the hundred-killer, the noose, and the dart.  Thou art he that took his birth within the primeval lotus.

Thou art he who is endued with a vast womb.  Thou art he who has the Vedas in his womb.  Thou art he who takes his rise from that infinite waste of waters which succeeds the dissolution of the universe.  Thou art he who is endued with rays of effulgent light.  Thou art the creator of the Vedas.  Thou art he who studies the Vedas.  Thou art he who is conversant with the meaning of the Vedas.  Thou art devoted to Brahman.  Thou art the refuge of all persons devoted to Brahman.  Thou art of infinite forms.  Thou art the bearer of innumerable bodies.  Thou art endued with irresistible prowess.[172] Thou art the soul or nature that transcends the three universal attributes (of Sattwa, Rajas, and Tamas).  Thou art the lord of all Jivas.  Thou art endued with the speed of the wind.  Thou art possessed of the fleetness of the mind.  Thou art always smeared with sandal-paste.  Thou art the end of the stalk of the primeval lotus.[173] Thou art he who brought the celestial cow Surabhi down from a superior station