Shloka 60

Adhyaya 4: अहोरात्र-युग-मन्वन्तर-कल्पमान तथा प्रलयान्ते सृष्ट्युपक्रमः

Devanagari script

स्रष्टुं तदा मतिं चक्रे ब्रह्मा ब्रह्मविदां वरः उदकैराप्लुतां क्ष्मां तां समादाय सनातनः

Transliteration

sraṣṭuṃ tadā matiṃ cakre brahmā brahmavidāṃ varaḥ udakairāplutāṃ kṣmāṃ tāṃ samādāya sanātanaḥ

Translation

Da fasste Brahmā—der Vortrefflichste unter den Kennern heiliger Weisheit—den Entschluss zu erschaffen. Er nahm jene ewige Erde, ringsum von Wassern überflutet, und begann das Werk der Offenbarung.

Word by Word

• स्रष्टुम्: to create

• तदा: then

• मतिम्: intention, resolve

• चक्रे: made, formed

• ब्रह्मा: Brahmā

• ब्रह्मविदाम्: of the knowers of Brahman/Vedic wisdom

• वरः: the best, foremost

• उदकैः: by waters

• आप्लुताम्: inundated, flooded

• क्ष्माम्: the Earth

• ताम्: that

• समादाय: having taken up, having gathered/raised

• सनातनः: the eternal one (here, Brahmā as timeless in the cosmic cycle)

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating the cosmogony to the sages; verse describes Brahma’s action)