ive perceptions, he framed all
creatures; and since the minutest particles of visible nature have a
dependence on those six emanations from God, the wise have accordingly
given the name of S'arira, or depending on six, that is, the ten organs on
consciousness, and the five elements on as many perceptions, to his image
or appearance in visible nature; thence proceed the great elements, endued
with peculiar powers, the mind with operations infinitely subtile, the
unperishable cause of all apparent forms.

"This universe, therefore, is compacted from the minute portions of these
seven divine and active principles, the great soul, or first emanation,
consciousness, and five perceptions; a mutable universe from immutable
ideas. Among them each succeeding element acquires the quality of the
preceding; and in as many degrees as each of them is advanced, with so
many properties is it said to be endued. He, too, first assigned to all
creatures distinct names, distinct acts, and distinct occupations, as they
had been revealed in the pre-existing Veda. He, the supreme ruler, created
an assemblage of inferior _Deities_, with divine attributes and pure
souls, and a number of Genii exquisitely delicate; and he prescribed the
sacrifice from the beginning. From fire, from air, and from the sun he
milked out, as it were, three primordial Vedas, named Rich, Yajush and
Saman, for the due performance of the sacrifice.

"He gave being to time and the divisions of time, to the stars also, and
to the planets, to rivers, oceans and mountains, to level plains and
uneven valleys, to devotion, speech, complacency, desire and wrath, and to
the creation, which shall presently be mentioned; for he willed the
existence of all those created things. For the sake of distinguishing
actions, he made a total difference between right and wrong, and enured
these sentient creatures to pleasure and pain, cold and heat, and other
opposite pairs. With very minute transformable portions called matras, of
the five elements, all this perceptible world was composed in fit order;
and in whatever occupation the Supreme Lord first employed any vital soul,
to that occupation the same soul attaches itself spontaneously when it
receives a new body again and again. Whatever quality, noxious or
innocent, harsh or mild, unjust or just, false or true, he conferred on
any being at its creation, the same quality enters it, of course, on its
future births; as the six seasons of