"A thousand heads hath Puruṣa, a thousand eyes, a thousand feet. On every side pervading earth he fills a space ten fingers wide. This Puruṣa is all that yet hath been and all that is to be."
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Rigveda, Book X, Hymn XC, as translated by T. H. Griffith (1896)
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