Lokakalpanā / The Ordering of the Worlds
Cosmogony and Earth’s Retrieval
वेदस्कन्धो हविर्गन्धिर्हव्यकव्यादिवेगवान् / प्राग्वंशकायो द्युतिमान् नानादीक्षाभिरन्वितः
vedaskandho havirgandhirhavyakavyādivegavān / prāgvaṃśakāyo dyutimān nānādīkṣābhiranvitaḥ
He is the very trunk of the Vedas, fragrant with the scent of oblation, swift with the force of offerings—havya and kavya. Of ancient lineage in form, radiant, and endowed with manifold sacred initiations.