Shloka 57

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

Sanskrit

शान्ता घोराश्च मूढाश्च विशेषास्तेन ते स्मृताः ।

परस्परानुप्रवेशाद्धारयन्ति परस्परम् ॥

Transliteration

śāntā ghorāśca mūḍhāśca viśeṣāstena te smṛtāḥ / parasparānupraveśāddhārayanti parasparam

Translation

Daher werden jene spezifizierten Elemente (viśeṣa) als ruhig, furchtbar und verblendend erinnert. Durch gegenseitiges Durchdringen stützen sie einander.

Speakers

• Narrative discourse within cosmological teaching (frame-speaker not explicit in the given excerpt)

Key Themes

• Cosmology
• Interpenetration of elements
• Guṇas (sattva/rajas/tamas) implied
• Ontology