Markandeya Purana — Adhyaya 45, Shloka 60
Adhyaya 45 — Jaimini’s Cosmological Questions and the Opening of Markandeya’s Account of Primary Creation
नाशक्नुवन् प्रजाः स्रष्टुमसमागम्य कृत्स्नशः ।
समेत्यान्योन्यसंयोगमन्योन्याश्रयिणश्च ते ॥
nāśaknuvan prajāḥ straṣṭum asamāgamya kṛtsnaśaḥ / sametyānyonyasaṃyogam anyonyāśrayiṇaśca te
They could not create creatures so long as they had not fully come together. When they had assembled, they entered into mutual conjunction, each depending upon the other.
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FAQs
Creation (and worldly accomplishment) requires cooperation and alignment of factors; isolated forces remain sterile. This is a cosmological statement with a practical ethic of interdependence.
Sarga: it explains the transition from separate principles to a productive aggregate capable of generating living beings.
Inner ‘creation’—coherent identity and insight—arises when scattered tendencies are yoked together; otherwise, consciousness remains fragmented and non-creative.