Shloka 151

Adhyaya 70: आदिसर्गः—महत्-अहङ्कार-तन्मात्रा-भूतसृष्टिः, ब्रह्माण्डावरणम्, प्रजासर्गः, त्रिमूर्ति-शैवाधिष्ठानम्

Devanagari script

ऊर्ध्वस्रोतःसु सृष्टेषु देवेषु वरदः प्रभुः प्रीतिमानभवद्ब्रह्मा ततो ऽन्यं सो ऽभ्यमन्यत

Transliteration

ūrdhvasrotaḥsu sṛṣṭeṣu deveṣu varadaḥ prabhuḥ prītimānabhavadbrahmā tato 'nyaṃ so 'bhyamanyata

Translation

Als die Götter des aufwärts strömenden Stromes (ūrdhvasrotas) erschaffen waren, wurde der Herr, der Gnadengeber—Brahmā—von Freude erfüllt; dann fasste er den Entschluss, noch eine weitere Ordnung von Wesen hervorzubringen.

Word by Word

• ūrdhva-srotaḥsu: among those whose current/impulse flows upward (the deities)

• sṛṣṭeṣu: when (they were) created

• deveṣu: the gods

• vara-daḥ: giver of boons

• prabhuḥ: the lord, sovereign

• prītimān: delighted, satisfied

• abhavat: became

• brahmā: Brahmā

• tataḥ: then, thereafter

• anyam: another, different (creation)

• saḥ: he

• abhyamanyata: thought, intended, planned

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating the creation account; internal focus on Brahma_toggle)