Shloka 58
Adhyaya 45 — Jaimini’s Cosmological Questions and the Opening of Markandeya’s Account of Primary Creation
भूमेरन्तस्त्विदं सर्वं लोकालोकं घनावृतम् ।
विशेषाश्चेन्द्रियग्राह्या नियतत्वाच्च ते स्मृताः ॥
bhūmerantastvidaṃ sarvaṃ lokālokaṃ ghanāvṛtam / viśeṣāścendriyagrāhyā niyatatvācca te smṛtāḥ
Within the earth, indeed, all this—the Lokāloka (region/boundary of the world and non-world)—is covered by dense mass. And the particularized elements are regarded as graspable by the senses, because they are determinate (fixed in form).
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FAQs
Perception operates where forms are fixed and determinate; the subtler the principle, the less directly sense-graspable it is. The ethical implication is to not limit truth to what senses can seize.
Sarga: it continues the description of the created cosmos, including its boundaries (lokāloka) and the epistemic status of gross evolutes.
Lokāloka can symbolize the edge of ordinary cognition: beyond a certain ‘boundary,’ sensory knowing fails. The verse thus gestures toward supra-sensory inquiry (jñāna) beyond indriya-grāhya domains.