A History of Sanskrit Literature c8.75

c8.75

*What was the place on which he gained a footing?*
*Where found he anything, or how, to hold by,*
*What time, the earth creating, Viçvakarman,*
*All-seeing, with his might disclosed the heavens?*

*Who has his eyes and mouth in every quarter,*
*Whose arms and feet are turned in all directions,*
*The one god, when the earth and heaven creating,*
*With his two arms and wings together welds them.*

*What was the wood, and what the tree, pray tell us,*
*From which they fashioned forth the earth and heaven?*
*Ye sages, in your mind, pray make inquiry,*
*Whereon he stood, when he the worlds supported?*