Vishnupurana 1.5.p3.4

1.5.p3.4

And from his western mouth, he created the Sāmas and the Fagati metre, the seventeenth Stoma, the Vairupa and the Atirātra. And from his northern mouth he brought forth the twenty-first Stoma, the Atharva Veda, the Aptoryāma, the Anishtubha metre, and the Vairāyya Sāma. Thus from his person came forth noble and ignoble. And having created gods, Asuras, Pitris, and men, that lord of beings, the great-sire, at the commencement of the Kalpa, created Yakshas, Piçāchas, Gandharvas, and numbers of Apsaras; and that lord, the reverend Brahmā, the first Cause, created Naras, Kinnaras, Rākshasas, birds, beasts, deer, serpents, and mobile and immobile objects lasting or other-wise. And in successive creations, verily each creature is born into those acts which it used to perform in its former existence. Some are cruel and some kind, some mild and some harsh, some virtuous and some vicious, some truthful and some false,—in consequence of their inheriting their respective natures as developed in previous births; and it is also for this that each affects a particular course of conduct (in preference to others). The Deity is the lord of all objects of enjoyment, of all creatures, and all bodies; and it is the Deity who hath personally divided and differentiated them. And at the beginning from the Vedic Vocabulary he assigned names unto creatures, celestials and other, as well as unto sacrifices; and also fixed forms and shapes thereof.