Shloka 12

अविद्या-पञ्चक, नवसर्ग-क्रमः, प्रजापति-प्रसवः

Vibhaga 1, Adhyaya 5

Devanagari script

संकल्पश्चैव धर्मश् च ह्य् अधर्मो धर्मसंनिधिः द्वादशैव प्रजास्त्वेता ब्रह्मणो ऽव्यक्तजन्मनः

Transliteration

saṃkalpaścaiva dharmaś ca hy adharmo dharmasaṃnidhiḥ dvādaśaiva prajāstvetā brahmaṇo 'vyaktajanmanaḥ

Translation

Saṅkalpa (la volition), Dharma, Adharma et la « Présence/Demeure du Dharma » : tels sont, en vérité, les douze principes progeniteurs (prajā) de Brahmā, dont l’origine vient de l’Immanifesté. Ainsi le cosmos se déploie comme loi ordonnatrice et sa négation, tandis que le Seigneur, Pati, demeure le témoin intérieur au-delà de toute manifestation.

Word by Word

• संकल्पः (saṅkalpaḥ): volition, formative intention

• च एव (ca eva): and indeed

• धर्मः (dharmaḥ): cosmic law, virtue, sustaining order

• च (ca): and

• हि (hi): indeed

• अधर्मः (adharmaḥ): non-law, disorder, vice

• धर्मसंनिधिः (dharma-saṃnidhiḥ): proximity/presence or seat of dharma, the condition in which dharma is established

• द्वादश (dvādaśa): twelve

• एव (eva): only/precisely

• प्रजाः (prajāḥ): progenitive beings/principles, generative emanations

• तु (tu): but/indeed

• एताः (etāḥ): these

• ब्रह्मणः (brahmaṇaḥ): of Brahmā (the creator)

• अव्यक्तजन्मनः (avyakta-janmanaḥ): whose birth/origin is from the Unmanifest (avyakta).

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating the creation account to the sages, with the Purana’s internal cosmology centered on Brahmā’s emanations under Shiva’s supreme oversight)