Yajurveda 14.23 — Yajna Devata
Shukla Yajurveda (Vajasaneyi Samhita) · Adhyaya 14 · Verse 14.23
Sanskrit Original
आशुस्त्रिवृद भान्तः पञ्चदशो व्योमा सप्तदशो धरुणऽएकविंम्शः प्रतूउर्तिरष्टादशस्तपो नवदशोऽभीवर्त्तः सविंम्शो वर्चो द्वाविंम्शः सम्भरणस्त्रयोविं म शो योनिश्चतुर्विं म शो गर्भाः पञ्चविंम्शऽ ओजस्त्रिणवः क्रतुरेकत्रिंम्शः प्रतिष्ठा त्रयस्त्रिंम्शो ब्रध्नस्य विष्टपं चतुस्त्रिंम्शो नाकः षट्त्रिंम्शो विवर्त्तोऽ ष्ताचत्वारिंम्शो धर्त्रं चतुष्टोमः।
Åśustrivṛd bhāntaḥ pa¤cadaśo vyomā saptadaśo dharuṇa'ekavi|mśaḥ pratūurtiraṣṭādaśastapo navadaśo'bhīvarttaḥ savi|mśo varco dvāvi|mśaḥ sambharaṇastrayovi| m śo yoniścaturvi| m śo garbhāḥ pa¤cavi|mśa' ojastriṇavaḥ kraturekatri|mśaḥ pratiṣṭhā trayastri|mśo bradhnasya viṣṭapa≈ catustri|mśo nākaḥ ṣaṭtri|mśo vivartto' ṣtācatvāri|mśo dhartra≈ catuṣṭomaḥ.
Quickly the threefold powers shine: fifteen is the sky’s, seventeen is the earth’s, one-and-twenty is the dharuṇa, eight-and-ten is the up-riser, nine-and-ten is tapas — turned back is thirty-one (?), splendour is twenty-two, support thrice twenty-three, wombs four-and-twenty, foetuses twenty-five, vigour twenty-three, rite thirty-one, establishment three-and-thirty, bṛhat’s viṣṭapa four-and-thirty, nostril thirty-six, turning thirty-eight, dhartra eighty-four? (complex numeric list assigning functions).