Upanishads · Nṛsiṃha-tāpanī Pūrva 4.44
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Devanāgarī
ओं यो ह वै नृसिंहो देवो भगवान् यश्च विराट् पुरुषः भूर्भुवः स्वस्तस्मै वै नमो नमः
Transliteration (IAST)
oṃ yo ha vai nṛsiṃho devo bhagavān yaśca virāṭ puruṣaḥ bhūrbhuvaḥ svastasmai vai namo namaḥ
Word-by-word
SanskritIASTMeaning
ओं यः ह वैoṃ yaḥ ha vaiOṁ. He who; Oṁ. The very one who
नृसिंहः देवः सः भगवान्nṛsiṃhaḥ devaḥ saḥ bhagavānis the God Nṛsiṃha — he is the Lord; the god Nṛsiṃha is — he is Bhagavān
यः च विराट् पुरुषःyaḥ ca virāṭ puruṣaḥand who is the Virāṭ-Puruṣa; and the one who is the Virāṭ-puruṣa
भूर्भुवः स्वःbhūrbhuvaḥ svaḥearth, mid-air, heaven; bhūḥ, bhuvaḥ, svaḥ
तस्मै वै नमः नमःtasmai vai namaḥ namaḥto him be bow upon bow; to him worship and worship
Translation
Oṁ. He who is the God Nṛsiṃha — He is the Lord, and He is the Virāṭ-Puruṣa. Earth, mid-air, heaven! To him be bow upon bow.
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The thirtieth name is Virāṭ Puruṣa, “the Shining-forth Puruṣa”: the gross body of the universe.
To him is referred the famous hymn of the thousand-headed one, and him the Māṇḍūkya calls Vaiśvānara — the first foot of the Ātman, waking and enjoying the gross.
We read that foot in the fourth paragraph of this very Upaniṣad, where it was described in numbers: seven limbs, nineteen gates.
That is, the litany returns to what has already been examined and calls it by His name.
Note that the name of the Puruṣa stands twice in the list: in the eighteenth paragraph simply puruṣa, here virāṭ puruṣa.
The first is spirit in general; the second — the universe as a body. Between them twenty-five names have found room.