Adhyaya 45 — Jaimini’s Cosmological Questions and the Opening of Markandeya’s Account of Primary Creation
ब्रह्माख्यः कथितो यस्ते समासात् श्रूयतां पुनः ।
यथा मग्नो जले कश्चिदुन्मज्जन् जलसम्भवः ॥
brahmākhyaḥ kathito yas te samāsāt śrūyatāṃ punaḥ | yathā magno jale kaścid unmajjann jalasambhavaḥ
যাক ‘ব্ৰহ্মা’ বুলি কোৱা হয়, সেয়া তোমালোকক মই সংক্ষেপে কৈছোঁ। এতিয়া পুনৰ (বিস্তাৰে) শুনা। যেনেকৈ পানীত নিমজ্জিত কোনো ব্যক্তি ওপৰলৈ উঠে, যেন পানীৰ পৰাই জন্ম লোৱা—
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Teaching proceeds from summary to detail; the analogy makes metaphysics accessible—scripture often uses familiar experience to point to subtle origins.
Sarga: specifically brahmā-utpatti (the arising of Brahmā) within primary creation.
Emergence from water echoes the motif of consciousness ‘rising’ from undifferentiated causal states; it also evokes the lotus/waters imagery common to Brahmā’s cosmogenesis.