Upodghata Pada Adhyaya 4 Shloka 37 - Brahmanda Purana | English | Vedapath

Shloka 37

Pratisarga-pravartana (How Re-Creation Proceeds) / पुनःसर्ग-प्रवर्तन

Devanagari script

अहङ्कारस्तु महतस्तस्माद्भूतानि चात्मनः / युगपत्संप्रवर्त्तन्ते भूतान्येवेन्द्रियाणि च

Transliteration

ahaṅkārastu mahatastasmādbhūtāni cātmanaḥ / yugapatsaṃpravarttante bhūtānyevendriyāṇi ca

Translation

From Mahat arises ahaṃkāra; and from it, simultaneously, proceed the elements (bhūtas) and the senses (indriyas) of the Self.

Word by Word

अहङ्कारःego-principle (ahaṅkāra)

तुbut/indeed

महतःfrom Mahat (the Great principle)

तस्मात्from that

भूतानिelements/beings

चand

आत्मनःof itself/of the self

युगपत्simultaneously

संप्रवर्तन्तेcome into operation/arise

भूतानिelements

एवindeed/just

इन्द्रियाणिsense faculties

चand