Skanda Purana 6.1.4.59.2

6.1.4.59.2

pāṇibhyāṃ brahmaṇā sognirbhūmerūrdhvaṃ niveśitaḥ ..
tato dakṣiṇahastena vedyāmagniḥ praṇīyate .. 15 ..
purāpatannadhojvāla ūrdhvajvālo yadā dhṛtaḥ ..
uttānaśca kṛto yasmādbrahmaṇā nirmito mithaḥ .. 16 ..
jvālābhiḥ prajvalannūrdhvaṃ sarvaśabdasphuliṃgavān ..
hiraṇyavarṇaṃ brahmāṇaṃ tadovācānirutkaṭaḥ .. 17 ..
kimarthaṃ tu tvayā deva bhūmibhakṣaṃ nivāritam ..
bubhukṣayāhamāviṣṭa āhāro me pradīyatām .. 18 ..
evamukto'gnaye brahmā svaromāṇi juhāva saḥ ..
kṛśaścakhāda agnistu sarvaromāṇi brahmaṇaḥ .. 19 ..
abravīcca na me tṛptirna ca me dehanirvṛtiḥ ..
tvacaṃ juhāva brahmā ca cakhādāgnistvacaṃ tadā .. 5.1.4.20 ..
abravīttaṃ tadā vahnistṛptirnāsti mameti hi ..
juhāva svāni māṃsāni tvacotkṛtya prajāpatiḥ .. 21 ..
abravīcca na me tṛptirna ca me dehanirvṛtiḥ..
juhāva brahmā cāsthīni tānyaśnātsa bubhukṣitaḥ .. 22 ..
tato dhātrā hutāśāya kṛto deho vidhātukaḥ .
tamadehamatho dṛṣṭvā brahmāṇamavadacca saḥ .. 23 ..
aho brahmanna me tṛptirna ca me dehanirvṛtiḥ.
kuddheṇa brahmaṇā so'gnirhuṃkāreṇa dvidhā kṛtaḥ .. 24 ..
āhatū rudatāvagnī āhārārthaṃ prajāpatim ..
huṃkāreṇa punarbrahmā dvidhaikaikaṃ cakāra vai .. 25 ..
trayasteṣāṃ rudaṃti sma rudanhyeko hyasaṃvṛtaḥ ..
kruddhena brahmaṇā vyāsa huṃkāreṇaiva tāḍitaḥ .. 26 ..
rorūyamāṇe cāgnau tu punarbrahmā kṛpānvitaḥ ..
prāha kāmābhibhūtānāṃ bhuṃkṣva tvaṃ dehadhātukam .. 27 ..
sa kālastasya kāmasya sā vṛttiḥ saṃprakalpitā ..
akārāgniṃ sanniviṣṭaṃ dṛṣṭvā manasi mānasaḥ .. 28 ..
huṃkārāgniḥ prajajvāla kimetaditi cābravīt ..

With both hands, that fire was placed above the earth by Brahmā. / Then with the right hand the fire is led onto the altar. // 15
Formerly its flame fell downward; when it was held with flame upward / and turned face up, because it was formed reciprocally by Brahmā, // 16
blazing upward with flames, crackling with sparks of every sound, / it then spoke fiercely to the golden-hued Brahmā: // 17
"Why, O Lord, have I been prevented from devouring the earth? / I am overwhelmed with hunger; let food be given to me!" // 18
Addressed in this way, Brahmā offered his own body-hairs to the fire. / But the lean fire devoured all the body-hairs of Brahmā, // 19
and said, "I have no satisfaction, nor any ease in my body." / Then Brahmā offered his skin, and the fire devoured the skin. // 20
Then the fire indeed said to him, "I have no satisfaction." / Cutting away [his flesh] with the skin, Prajāpati offered his own flesh. // 21
And it said, "I have no satisfaction, nor any ease in my body." / Then Brahmā offered his bones; hungry, it devoured them. // 22
Then a body devoid of elements was made for the fire by the Creator. / Seeing Brahmā then bodiless, it said to him: // 23
"Ah, O Brahmā, I have no satisfaction, nor any ease in my body!" / Enraged, Brahmā split that fire into two with the sound huṃ. // 24
Both weeping fires spoke to Prajāpati for the sake of food. / Again with the sound huṃ Brahmā divided each one into two. // 25
Three of them wept, and one wept uncovered. / Struck by enraged Brahmā, O Vyāsa, with the very sound huṃ, // 26
and as the fire wailed excessively, Brahmā, filled with compassion again, / said: "Devour the bodily elements of those overcome by lust." // 27
That time belonged to that lust; that livelihood was ordained. / Seeing the A-kāra fire situated within his mind, he who is born from the mind— // 28
the Huṃ-kāra fire blazed up, and it said, "What is this?"