Shloka 12

अविद्या-पञ्चक, नवसर्ग-क्रमः, प्रजापति-प्रसवः

Vibhaga 1, Adhyaya 5

Devanagari script

संकल्पश्चैव धर्मश् च ह्य् अधर्मो धर्मसंनिधिः द्वादशैव प्रजास्त्वेता ब्रह्मणो ऽव्यक्तजन्मनः

Transliteration

saṃkalpaścaiva dharmaś ca hy adharmo dharmasaṃnidhiḥ dvādaśaiva prajāstvetā brahmaṇo 'vyaktajanmanaḥ

Translation

Saṅkalpa (Willensimpuls), Dharma, Adharma und die „Gegenwart/Heimstatt des Dharma“—dies sind wahrlich die zwölf zeugenden Prinzipien (prajā) Brahmās, deren Ursprung aus dem Unmanifesten stammt. So entfaltet sich der Kosmos als geordnete Gesetzmäßigkeit und ihre Verneinung, während der Herr, Pati, als innerer Zeuge jenseits aller Manifestation verweilt.

Word by Word

• संकल्पः (saṅkalpaḥ): volition, formative intention

• च एव (ca eva): and indeed

• धर्मः (dharmaḥ): cosmic law, virtue, sustaining order

• च (ca): and

• हि (hi): indeed

• अधर्मः (adharmaḥ): non-law, disorder, vice

• धर्मसंनिधिः (dharma-saṃnidhiḥ): proximity/presence or seat of dharma, the condition in which dharma is established

• द्वादश (dvādaśa): twelve

• एव (eva): only/precisely

• प्रजाः (prajāḥ): progenitive beings/principles, generative emanations

• तु (tu): but/indeed

• एताः (etāḥ): these

• ब्रह्मणः (brahmaṇaḥ): of Brahmā (the creator)

• अव्यक्तजन्मनः (avyakta-janmanaḥ): whose birth/origin is from the Unmanifest (avyakta).

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating the creation account to the sages, with the Purana’s internal cosmology centered on Brahmā’s emanations under Shiva’s supreme oversight)