Shloka 5
Adhyaya 48 — The Netherworlds
युक्तात्मनस्तमोमात्रा उद्रिक्ता भूत्त् प्रजापतेः ।
सिसृक्षोर्जघनात् पूर्वमसुरा जज्ञिरे ततः ॥
yuktātmanas tamomātrā udriktābhūt prajāpateḥ |
sisṛkṣor jaghanāt pūrvam asurā jajñire tataḥ ||
Als Prajāpati—dessen Selbst in die Schöpfung vertieft war—vom Tamas (Dunkelheit) überwogen wurde, wurden die Asuras zuerst geboren, aus seinem hinteren Teil.
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FAQs
Asuric tendencies are linked with tamas (inertia, obscuration). The text maps moral-psychological qualities onto cosmological origins, encouraging cultivation of sattva/rajas over tamas.
Sarga: a guṇa-based account of the first emergence of a class of beings (asuras).
The ‘posterior’ symbolism indicates a lower or more obscured level of manifestation; tamas is associated with heaviness and concealment, hence its placement and precedence in this sequence.