Shloka 29

Adhyaya 70: आदिसर्गः—महत्-अहङ्कार-तन्मात्रा-भूतसृष्टिः, ब्रह्माण्डावरणम्, प्रजासर्गः, त्रिमूर्ति-शैवाधिष्ठानम्

Devanagari script

त्रिगुणाद् रजसोद्रिक्ताद् अहङ्कारस्ततो ऽभवत् महता च वृतः सर्गो भूतादिर् बाह्यतस्तु सः

Transliteration

triguṇād rajasodriktād ahaṅkārastato 'bhavat mahatā ca vṛtaḥ sargo bhūtādir bāhyatastu saḥ

Translation

De la Prakṛti faite des trois guṇa — lorsque rajas prédomine — naît ahaṅkāra, le principe du « moi ». Enveloppée par Mahat, l’intelligence cosmique, cette création tournée vers l’extérieur commence comme bhūtādi, source des éléments.

Word by Word

• त्रिगुणात्: from the three-guṇa (Prakṛti)

• रजस-उद्रिक्तात्: from the predominance of rajas

• अहङ्कारः: ego-principle, I-maker

• ततः: then/from that

• अभवत्: arose/came into being

• महता: by Mahat (cosmic intellect)

• च: and

• वृतः: covered/enveloped

• सर्गः: creation/emission

• भूतादिः: beginning with the elements (source of bhūtas)

• बाह्यतः: outwardly/externally

• तु: indeed

• सः: that (creation)

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating the cosmology of creation to the sages at Naimiṣāraṇya)