Shloka 183

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

Devanagari script

दक्षमत्रिं वसिष्ठं च सो ऽसृजन्मानसान् नव नव ब्रह्माण इत्येते पुराणे निश्चयं गताः

Transliteration

dakṣamatriṃ vasiṣṭhaṃ ca so 'sṛjanmānasān nava nava brahmāṇa ityete purāṇe niścayaṃ gatāḥ

Translation

Darauf brachte er durch bloßen Gedanken Dakṣa, Atri und Vasiṣṭha hervor—wahrlich die neun geistgeborenen Urväter. Im Purāṇa gilt mit Gewissheit: Diese sind die „neun Brahmās“, die ersten Träger des Schöpfungswirkens.

Word by Word

• दक्षम (dakṣam): Dakṣa

• अत्रिं (atriṁ): Atri

• वसिष्ठं (vasiṣṭham): Vasiṣṭha

• च (ca): and

• सः (saḥ): he (Brahmā)

• असृजत् (asṛjat): created, emanated

• मानसान् (mānasān): mind-born, born of thought

• नव (nava): nine

• नव (nava): nine (emphatic repetition)

• ब्रह्माणः (brahmāṇaḥ): Brahmās/creator-lords/progenitors

• इति (iti): thus

• एते (ete): these

• पुराणे (purāṇe): in the Purāṇa

• निश्चयं (niścayaṁ): certainty, settled conclusion

• गताः (gatāḥ): are accepted/attained (as established).

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating the creation account, with Brahma as the acting creator within the narrative)