Shloka 65

Adhyaya 45 — Jaimini’s Cosmological Questions and the Opening of Markandeya’s Account of Primary Creation

Sanskrit

तेन सर्वमिदं व्याप्तं त्रैलोक्यं सचराचरम् ।

मेरुस्तस्यानुसंभूतो जरायुश्चापि पर्वताः ॥

Transliteration

tena sarvam idaṃ vyāptaṃ trailokyaṃ sacarācaram | merus tasyānusambhūto jarāyuś cāpi parvatāḥ

Translation

Par ce principe/être cosmique, tout ceci—les trois mondes avec tout ce qui est mobile et immobile—fut entièrement pénétré. De cet œuf cosmique surgit le mont Meru, et les montagnes furent, pour ainsi dire, sa membrane (jarāyu).

Word by Word

• तेन: by him/thereby
• तेन: करण (Instrument/करण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: तद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग/नपुंसकलिङ्ग, तृतीया (करण) एकवचन; instrumental of pronoun

• सर्वम्: all
• सर्वम्: कर्म (Object/कर्म)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: सर्व (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, प्रथमा/द्वितीया एकवचन; agrees with इदम्

• इदम्: this (universe)
• इदम्: कर्म (Object/कर्म)
• Type: Noun
• Root: इदम् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, प्रथमा/द्वितीया एकवचन; demonstrative pronoun

• व्याप्तम्: pervaded
• व्याप्तम्: क्रिया (Predicate/क्रिया)
• Type: Verb
• Root: व्याप् (धातु) + क्त (कृदन्त)
• Form: भूतकर्मणि कृदन्त (past passive participle), नपुंसकलिङ्ग, प्रथमा/द्वितीया एकवचन; agrees with सर्वम् इदम्

• त्रैलोक्यम्: the three worlds
• त्रैलोक्यम्: कर्म (Object/कर्म)
• Type: Noun
• Root: त्रैलोक्य (प्रातिपदिक: त्रि + लोक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, प्रथमा/द्वितीया एकवचन; dvigu compound ‘three worlds’

• सचराचरम्: with the moving and the unmoving
• सचराचरम्: विशेषण (Qualifier/विशेषण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: स-चर-अचर (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, प्रथमा/द्वितीया एकवचन; dvandva ‘moving and unmoving’ with prefix स- ‘with’

• मेरुः: Mount Meru
• मेरुः: कर्ता (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: मेरु (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा एकवचन

• तस्य: of him/of that (cosmic being/egg)
• तस्य: सम्बन्ध (Genitive relation/षष्ठी)
• Type: Noun
• Root: तद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग/नपुंसकलिङ्ग, षष्ठी एकवचन; genitive

• अनुसंभूतः: arose/was produced thereafter
• अनुसंभूतः: क्रिया (Predicate/क्रिया)
• Type: Verb
• Root: अनु-सम्-भू (धातु) + क्त (कृदन्त)
• Form: भूतकर्मणि/भूतकृत् कृदन्त (past participle), पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा एकवचन; agrees with मेरुः

• जरायुः: the membrane/chorion
• जरायुः: कर्ता (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: जरायु (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा एकवचन

• च: and
• च: समुच्चय (Conjunction/समुच्चय)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: च (अव्यय)
• Form: समुच्चयबोधक अव्यय (conjunction)

• अपि: also
• अपि: सम्बन्ध (Particle/निपात)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: अपि (अव्यय)
• Form: सम्भावना/समुच्चयार्थक अव्यय (also/even)

• पर्वताः: mountains
• पर्वताः: कर्ता (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: पर्वत (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा बहुवचन

Speakers

• Frame dialogue likely: Krauṣṭuki (speaker) to a listener (context continues into 46.1); immediate speaker not explicitly stated in the verse

Verse Rasa

{ "primaryRasa": "adbhuta", "secondaryRasa": "shanta", "rasaIntensity": 0, "emotionalArcPosition": "", "moodDescriptors": [] }

Key Themes

• Cosmology
• Sarga (creation)
• Brahmāṇḍa (cosmic egg)
• Sacara–acara ontology

FAQs

What is the philosophical or ethical takeaway?

The verse stresses a unified pervasion: the cosmos is not a collection of unrelated parts but a single, pervaded totality in which even geography (Meru, mountains) is read as organic structure.

How does this fit the Pancalakshana (5 characteristics)?

Primarily Sarga (primary creation/cosmogenesis), describing the arising of cosmic structures from the brahmāṇḍa.

What is the esoteric significance?

Mountains as jarāyu (membrane) suggests the world as an embryo: the universe is ‘gestated’ within prakṛti, and the visible boundaries of the world mirror protective, formative coverings.