Vedic Mythology c5.s4.6

c5.s4.6

The RV. further states that Tvaṣṭṛ adorned all beings with form (10, 110⁹). He developes the germ in the womb and is the shaper of all forms, human and animal (1, 188⁹; 8, 91⁸; 10, 184¹). Similar statements are frequently made in later Vedic texts (AV. 2, 26¹, &c.), where he is characteristically a creator of forms (ŚB. 11, 4, 3³; TB. 1, 4, 7¹)³. He himself is called omniform (*viśvarūpa*) oftener than any other deity in the RV. As fashioner of living forms, he is frequently described as presiding over generation and bestowing offspring (3, 4⁹ &c.). Thus he is said to have fashioned husband and wife for each other from the womb (10, 10⁵; AV. 6, 78³). He has produced and nourishes a great variety of creatures (3, 55¹⁹). Beasts belong to Tvaṣṭṛ (ŚB. 3, 7, 3¹¹. 8, 3¹¹). He is indeed a universal father, for he produced the whole world (VS. 29, 9).