Shloka 2
Adhyaya 52 — The Manifestation of Nilalohita (Rudra) and the Allocation of His Names, Abodes, Consorts, and Lineages
तनयाश्च तथैवाष्टौ पत्न्यः पुत्राश्च ते तथा ।
कल्पादावात्मनस्तुल्यं सुतं प्रध्यायतः प्रभोः ॥
tanayāś ca tathaivāṣṭau patnyaḥ putrāś ca te tathā / kalpādāv ātmanas tulyaṁ sutaṁ pradhyāyataḥ prabhoḥ
Likewise there were eight sons, and for them too there were wives and sons. At the beginning of the kalpa, as the Lord (Brahmā) was absorbed in meditation, a son equal to him in nature was conceived/manifested.
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FAQs
Creation is portrayed as arising from concentrated tapas/meditation (pradhyāna). The ‘son equal to himself’ motif signals that cosmic functions emanate from the creator’s own potency, not from an external source.
Primarily Sarga (primary creation): the emergence of a major deity-principle (Rudra) and the structuring of his line (wives/sons) belongs to cosmogonic enumeration.
Rudra’s emergence ‘equal to the self’ can be read as the manifestation of the transformative/withdrawal power inherent in the creator—i.e., the destructive/ascetic principle is latent within creation itself.