Shloka 45
Adhyaya 45 — Jaimini’s Cosmological Questions and the Opening of Markandeya’s Account of Primary Creation
आपश्चापि विकुर्वत्यो गन्धमात्रं ससर्जिरे ।
सङ्घातो जायते तस्मात्तस्य गन्धो गुणो मतः ॥
āpaścāpi vikurvatyo gandhamātraṃ sasarjire / saṅghāto jāyate tasmāttasya gandho guṇo mataḥ
والمياهُ أيضًا، إذ خضعت للتحوّل، أَنتجت العنصرَ اللطيف (التنماترا) للرائحة. ومنه ينشأ المركَّبُ (العنصرُ الكثيف)، فلذلك تُعَدّ الرائحةُ صفتَه.
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FAQs
The verse presents a causal chain: subtle potentials (tanmātras) give rise to gross composites, and the recognizable sense-quality (here, smell) is treated as the defining attribute of that emergent level. Philosophically, it trains the reader to see experience (sense qualities) as effects of prior, subtler causes rather than as independent realities.
Primarily Sarga (primary creation): it enumerates emergence of subtle elements and their guṇas as part of the cosmological unfolding.
Smell is linked with solidity/condensation in many Indian cosmologies; the movement from subtle smell-potential to composite formation symbolizes the descent of consciousness into increasing concreteness and fixity (from potential to aggregation).