Varāha Mahā Purana
52 - Agastyagitä II
Agastya said:
1. The king made himself into a tri-coloured being and produced a tri-coloured son named Aham (Ego).
2. The son got a daughter Avabodha (consciousness) and she got a son Vijñäna (knowledge).
3. He got five sons comprehending all comprehensible objects and named Aksha and the rest (Eye etc).
4. These (sense-organs) were the Dasyus (hostile aborigines) who were subjugated by the king.
5. In their abstract form they made an abode for themselves (in the king’s person), a city consisting of nine outlets, a single pillar, four pathways, and numerous rivulets and ponds.
6. All the nine entered the city together and soon Pašhupäla became the concrete Purusha.
7. Established in that city, the king brought the Vedas there by contemplating on them.
8. The king also arranged there for all the Vratas, rules and sacrifices laid down in them.
9. The king once felt distressed and evoked the karmakända (the scripture of ritualistic action), and then the Supreme lord remaining in yogic slumber, got forth a son with four faces, four hands and four feet and embodying the four Vedas.
10. From then onwards every object of sense came to be under the king’s perfect control.
11. He found alike the sea and the forest, the grass and the elephant as a result of his invocation of the Karmakända.1
1. The whole of this Agastyagitä is an allegory based on the principles of Säñkhya philosophy.
Summary of chapter 52 of the Varāha Mahā Purana is as follows:
The narrative continues as Mother Diti awakens from her meditation and discovers her forty-nine newborn sons crying softly around her. Indra prostrates before Mother Diti, explaining his actions and seeking her forgiveness while promising to adopt the forty-nine infants as his own divine companions. Sanctified by the grace of Mother Aditi and Bhagavān Vishṇu, the forty-nine Maruts are crowned as the wind deities who control the atmospheric currents, storms, and rains across the cosmos, permanently allied with Indra and the devas.