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Virat-Purusha

विराट्पुरुष

Also known as वैराजः पुरुषः · विश्वमूर्तिः · विश्वतनुः · सहस्रशीर्षा · Sahasranghri · सहस्राङ्घ्रि

His body is the cosmic egg girt with seven sheaths

'anda-koshe sharire 'smin saptavarana-samyute vairajah purusho yo 'sau bhagavan dharanashrayah' (SB 2.1.25).

Patala His feet, the sky His navel, Satyaloka His head, the sun His eye

'patalam etasya hi pada-mulam' (SB 2.1.26); 'nabhastalam nabhi-saro grinanti' (SB 2.1.27); 'satyam tu shirshani sahasra-shirshnah' (SB 2.1.28); 'cakshur abhut patangah' (SB 2.1.30). Evidence: EXPLICIT.

Both the gross and subtle forms are fashioned of maya; the wise accept neither

'amuni bhagavad-rupe maya te hy anuvarnite, ubhe api na grihnanti maya-srishte vipashcitah' (SB 2.10.35); agency too is superimposed by maya precisely to deny it (SB 2.10.45).

The abiding, first and ancient Person

The gods address the Lord as 'kUTa-stha AdyaH puruShaH purANaH', the abiding, first and ancient Person (SB 3.5.49), and at SB 3.5.26 that same purusha, who is His own self, lays seed into the guna-made maya. In the roster 'paraH puruShaH' is an epithet of Krishna and virat-purusha is a distinct entity; no third near-duplicate was created.

The first Person, thousand-footed, thousand-thighed, thousand-armed

At SB 3.7.22 Vidura asks for a description of that Person, 'yam Ahur AdyaM puruShaM sahasrA~NGhry-Uru-bAhukam / yatra vishva ime lokAH savikAsaM samAsate' — whom they call the first Person, thousand-footed, thousand-thighed, thousand-armed, in whom all these worlds are set with their unfolding. At SB 3.7.23 His breath is given as tenfold and threefold.