Shloka 65
Adhyaya 49 — Primordial Human Creation, the Rise of Desire, and the Origins of Settlements, Measures, and Agriculture
स चापि तत्त्वतो ज्ञात्वा तदा ग्रस्तां वसुन्धराम् ।
वत्सं कृत्वा सुमेरुं तु दुदोह भगवान् विभुः ॥
sa cāpi tattvato jñātvā tadā grastāṃ vasundharām /
vatsaṃ kṛtvā sumeruṃ tu dudoha bhagavān vibhuḥ //
He (Brahmā) too, knowing the reality of the matter, and seeing that the Earth had been “swallowed up” (deprived/overrun), the Blessed Lord, the all-powerful one, milked her—making Mount Sumeru the calf.
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FAQs
Sustenance is restored not by further grabbing but by right method and right authority—‘milking’ implies regulated extraction, guided by knowledge (tattvataḥ), not exploitation.
Poṣaṇa: an explicit act of provisioning the world; also Sarga in the sense of re-establishing productive order.
Sumeru as ‘calf’ symbolizes the stable axis (dharma/center) that enables the Earth’s abundance to flow. Without a fixed center, extraction becomes destructive rather than nourishing.