Shloka 63
Adhyaya 45 — Jaimini’s Cosmological Questions and the Opening of Markandeya’s Account of Primary Creation
Sanskrit
भूतेभ्यो 'ण्डं महाबुद्धे ! वृहत्तदुदकेशयम् ।
प्राकृते 'ण्डे विवृद्धः सन् क्षेत्रज्ञो ब्रह्मसंज्ञितः ॥
Transliteration
bhūtebhyo 'ṇḍaṃ mahābuddhe ! vṛhattadudakeśayam / prākṛte 'ṇḍe vivṛddhaḥ san kṣetrajño brahmasaṃjñitaḥ
Translation
Aus den Elementen entstand das Ei, o Großgesinnter—gewaltig und auf den Wassern ruhend. In jenem prakritischen (Prākṛta) Ei erhob sich, als es herangewachsen war, der Kenner des Feldes (Kṣetrajña), bekannt unter dem Namen Brahmā.
Speakers
Narrative discourse within cosmological teaching (frame-speaker not explicit in the given excerpt)
Primary Deities
BrahmāKṣetrajña (as a principle)
Key ThemesCosmologyCosmic egg on primordial watersKṣetrajñaBrahmā as first embodied principle