Virāj
mythological figure · 3 works · 6 mentions · 8 anchored passages
Viraj · that Male
in the texts
Atharvaveda (Paippalāda)
A personified cosmic principle (often female, called 'the ruling one'), the subject of an extended riddle hymn and later identified with Prāṇa.
they call Virāj the father of Brahman — reveal her to us according to the seasons, among our companions.
Who truly knows the twofold nature of Virāj, who knows her seasons, who again knows her ordered pattern?
in her cowpen, at her bringing-forth, the yakṣa trembles — she is Virāj, O seers, in the highest heaven.
Rigveda
A cosmic principle/being born from Puruṣa, from whom Puruṣa is in turn born again.
from Virāj the Puruṣa was born again.
Manusmṛti
The male being created within the female half of the divided primordial deity, identified with Manu himself.
Know me, O best of the twice-born, to be that Male, Viraj, whom he himself created after performing *tapas*, the creator of this entire universe.
Having divided his own body into two, the Lord became male with one half and female with the other;