Shloka 19
Adhyaya 45 — Jaimini’s Cosmological Questions and the Opening of Markandeya’s Account of Primary Creation
प्रणिपत्य जगन्नाथं पद्मयोनिं पितामहम् ।
जगद्योनिं स्थितं सृष्टौ स्थितौ विष्णुस्वरूपिणम् ।
प्रलये चान्तकर्तारं रौद्रं रुद्रस्वरूपिणम् ॥
praṇipatya jagannāthaṃ padmayoniṃ pitāmaham | jagadyoniṃ sthitaṃ sṛṣṭau sthitau viṣṇusvarūpiṇam | pralaye cāntakartāraṃ raudraṃ rudrasvarūpiṇam ||
S’étant prosterné devant le Seigneur de l’univers—Pitāmaha, né du lotus—qui est le sein du monde ; lui qui, dans la création, est établi comme Brahmā, dans la préservation prend la forme de Viṣṇu, et, lors de la dissolution, est le farouche artisan de la fin, sous la forme de Rudra.
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FAQs
Before speaking on origins, the narrator aligns speech with reverence: knowledge is framed as sacred and accountable to the cosmic order. The verse also teaches functional unity—creation, sustenance, and dissolution are coordinated aspects of one Lord’s governance.
It prefaces sarga/pratisarga discussions by naming the divine agencies associated with cosmic cycles (creation-maintenance-dissolution), setting the doctrinal stage for sarga (primary creation).
The triadic mapping (Brahmā–Viṣṇu–Rudra) encodes the rhythm of manifestation: emergence, coherence, and reabsorption. The ‘one Lord’ behind forms suggests a non-sectarian metaphysics where names denote functions, not competing absolutes.