Shloka 70

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

Sanskrit

अन्योन्यमावृत्य च ता अष्टौ प्रकृतयः स्थिताः ।

एषा सा प्रकृतिर्नित्या यदन्तः पुरुषश्च सः ॥

Transliteration

anyonyam āvṛtya ca tā aṣṭau prakṛtayaḥ sthitāḥ | eṣā sā prakṛtir nityā yad antaḥ puruṣaś ca saḥ

Translation

Sich gegenseitig überdeckend, bestehen jene acht Prakṛtis fort. Dies ist die ewige Prakṛti; und das, was im Innern ist, ist der Puruṣa.

Speakers

• Cosmological narration; speaker not explicitly marked here

Key Themes

• Sāṃkhya
• Prakṛti–Puruṣa duality
• Mutual envelopment
• Metaphysics