Markandeya Purana — Adhyaya 45, Shloka 14
Adhyaya 45 — Jaimini’s Cosmological Questions and the Opening of Markandeya’s Account of Primary Creation
श्रोतुमिच्छाम्यहं सर्वमेतदाहूतसम्प्लवम् ।
उपसंहृते च यच्छेषं जगत्यस्मिन् भविष्यति ॥
śrotum icchāmy ahaṃ sarvam etad āhūtasaṃplavam | upasaṃhṛte ca yac cheṣaṃ jagaty asmin bhaviṣyati ||
আমি এ সবই শুনতে চাই—আহূত/আহ্বানিত প্রলয় সম্পর্কেও; আর যখন জগৎ প্রত্যাহৃত হয়, তখন এই বিশ্বব্রহ্মাণ্ডে কী অবশিষ্ট থাকে?
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FAQs
Inquiry into what ‘remains’ after dissolution encourages discernment between perishable forms and enduring principles (dharma/knowledge), directing one toward what is stable.
Falls under pratisarga/pralaya discussion: the mechanics of dissolution and the seed-state that enables subsequent re-creation.
The ‘deluge’ symbolizes the flooding of differentiated experience back into undifferentiated potential; ‘residue’ (śeṣa) points to the causal seed (bīja) or underlying consciousness that persists through cycles.