Shloka 20

Adhyaya 45 — Jaimini’s Cosmological Questions and the Opening of Markandeya’s Account of Primary Creation

Sanskrit

मार्कण्डेय उवाच उत्पन्नमात्रस्य पुरा ब्रह्मणोऽव्यक्तजन्मनः ।

पुराणमेतद्वेदाश्च मुखेभ्योऽनुविनिः सृताः ॥

Transliteration

mārkaṇḍeya uvāca utpannamātrasya purā brahmaṇo ’vyaktajanmanaḥ | purāṇam etad vedāś ca mukhebhyo ’nuviniḥ sṛtāḥ ||

Translation

Mārkaṇḍeya sprach: In uralter Zeit, als Brahmā—dessen Geburt unmanifest ist—eben erst hervorgetreten war, strömten dieses Purāṇa und die Veden aus seinen Mündern hervor.

Speakers

• Mārkaṇḍeya (within the nested narrative)

Primary Deities

• Brahmā

Key Themes

• Revelation and textual origins
• Sarga (beginnings)
• Authority of Purāṇa alongside Veda