Viraj - wikipedia Viraj This article is about a Sanskrit word. For the legendary realm in Slavonic mythology, see Vyraj. 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Manu Smriti 1.32 states that Brahma divided his body into two, one male and the other female, from the female was born Viraj who produced Svayambhuva Manu who created the ten Prajapatis. According to the Bhavishya Purana -- the male was Manu and the female was Shatarupa, creation commenced with the union of Viraj and Shatrupa. In the Vedanta, Viraj is identified with supreme intellect. Viraj is also the name of a metre. Viraj is identified by Atharvaveda -- 4.11. 7 with Indra, Agni, Prajapati and Parameshtin ( A.V. iv. 11.7 ) ; with Devata, Vishnu, Savitr, Rudra, Brahmachari, Water and the world ( A.V. viii. 5.10 ), with controlling Indra ( A.V. xi. 5.16 ), with the immortal wide spreading ruling power ( A.V. vii. 84.1 ), with first and creative principle ( A.V. viii. 9.7 ), with the universe ( A.V. viii. 10.11 ), as father of Brahman ( A.V. viii. 9.7 ), with speech, the earth, the atmosphere, death ( A.V. ix. 10.24 ), with the udder of the frame of creation, Brahman being its mouth ( A.V.x. 7.19 ) and with Dhruva, the point of the heavens directly under the feet ( A.V. xii. 3.11 ). The following four verses of Taittiriyopanishad - bhasyavartikam methodically describe Viraj : Verse 158 -- God, cause of the regions of the universe etc., whose body consists of five elements, kindled by delusion `` I am ( this ) All '' thus has become Viraj. Verse 159 -- Earlier than this ( Viraj ) is Sutram, for, if this one exists, ( then also ) Viraj ( exists ). ( This is so ) on account of another sruti and according to the indirect evidence ( of the sruti - quotation, which reads :) `` Understanding ''. Verse 160 -- Setting aside ( the words ) `` consisting of food '', etc., Sutram is meant here on account of the expression : food, life ( etc., ) and by virtue of reference to meditation. Verse 161 -- Sutram preceded the origin of the product because it does not differ from being ( sat ) no more than clay. When it has produced the product, the cause becomes the product as it were. Viraj, as Deva, as the first - born Fire, the first embodied being ( Shiva Purana V.i. 8.22 ), is reminiscence of the Purusha ( Rig Veda X. 90 ), in elder Upanishads this name appears thrice -- once in the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad passage IV. ii. 3 as `` the human form that is in the left eye '', and twice in the Chandogya Upanishad in passages I. xiii. 2 as the stobha called Vak ( Vairaj Sama ) and IV. iii. 8 as the food and as the eater of food, Viraj is food - virad annam bhogyatvad eva ( BUBh 4.2. 3 ). Viraj is originated from Sutram ( 159, BUBhV p. 431, st18 / 9 ) also called Sutratman in Vedantasara, basically of feminine gender, its masculine gender is also found in Brahma Purana I. 53, its coming forth is due to delusion. Viraj is said to be food, the essence of food, identical to the pinda, food and the eater of food, to be the eldest of beings as food, to pervade all products as their material cause, to be Prajapati. Viraj is said to be released by virtue of her own nature, originated from Brahman from Viraj, Purusa or Manu. In Vedantasara it is Vaisvanara and is said to be Caitanyam ( intelligence ) identified by Sthulasariram, Annamayakosha and Jagrad on one hand and on the other it is Hiranyagarbha or Prana, the intelligence conditioned by Suksamasariram consisting of Vijnanamayakosha, Manomayakosha and Pranomayakosha, or Svapna ; it is explained this way to systematize these notions. Sutram is the three sheaths viz., breath, manas and understanding ; food is its sheath and bliss is the sheath of cause which is an adjunct of Hiranyagarbha, the highest cosmic soul, and the origin of Viraj. The gods obtained virajam ( brilliance ) from Agni by means of consecration, Viraj is the year consisting of twelve months, the fire to be piled is the year, the bricks that are piled are the days and the nights, and Viraj consists of six seasons, and has thirty syllables ( Yajur Veda v. 6.7 ). In the brahmanas, Sri and Viraj, are identified with food ( S.B. 11.4. 3.18 ), in the Atharva Veda it is extolled as the first and creative principle ( A.V. 8.9 - 10 ), and with Prana ( A.V. xi. 4.12 ) and it is identified with earth ( S.B. 12.6. 1.40 ) ( MBh. 12.262. 41 ) In the Aitareya Upanishad Viraj is the intermediary between the Atman and the world, the creation of the world by the primeval Atman was through the intermediary Viraj. It is the waking state of the Cosmic Self ; the Cosmic Self as it passes through its four states Vaisvanara, Taijasa, Prajya and Atman, comes to be called the Viraj, Hiranyagarbha, Isa and Brahman respectively. Viraj or Virat of the Bhagavad Gita is the Cosmic Body within which body is concentrated the entire creation consisting of both animate and inanimate beings, and whatever else one desires to see, and which Arjuna beheld with all its manifold divisions. Adi Shankara in his Bhasya on Brihadaranyaka Upanishad I. ii. 3 explains that Viraj who was born, himself differentiated or divided himself, his body and organs, in three ways... So this Prana ( Viraj ), although the self, as it were, of all beings, is specially divided by himself as Death in three ways as fire, air and the sun, without, however, destroying his own form of Viraj. See also Vyraj References Jump up ^ Rig Veda X. 90.5 Jump up ^ Rashan Dalal ( 2010 ). Hinduism : An Alphabetical Guide. Penguin Books. p. 457. ISBN 9780143414216. Jump up ^ J. Gonda ( 1966 ). ancient Indian kingship from the religious point of view. Brill Archive. pp. 115 -- 119. Jump up ^ Taittiriyopanishad - bhasyavartikam. Brill Archive. 1971. p. 81. Jump up ^ The Yajur Veda Taittiriya Sanhita. Kessinger Publishing. 2004 - 06. p. 405. ISBN 9781419188961. Check date values in : date = ( help ) Jump up ^ Jan Gonda ( 1969 ). Aspects of Early Vishnuism. Motilal Banarsidass. p. 187. ISBN 9788120810877. 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Question: what is the meaning of the name viraj
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