Shloka 112
Cosmic Time, Cycles of Creation and Dissolution, and the Varāha Uplift of Earth
बृहत्साम तथोक्थं च दक्षिणादसृजन्मुखात् । सामानि जगतीच्छन्दः स्तोमं सप्तदशं तथा
bṛhatsāma tathokthaṃ ca dakṣiṇādasṛjanmukhāt | sāmāni jagatīcchandaḥ stomaṃ saptadaśaṃ tathā
De sa bouche du sud, il fit naître le Bṛhat-sāman et l’Uktha ; les chants Sāman, le mètre Jagatī et, de même, le stoma à dix-sept formes.
Narrator describing Brahmā’s emanation of Vedic forms (contextual speaker varies by recension)
Primary Rasa: adbhuta
Secondary Rasa: shanta
Type: celestial_realm
Sandhi Resolution Notes: तथोक्थं = तथा + उक्थम्; दक्षिणादसृजन्मुखात् = दक्षिणात् + असृजत् + मुखात् (त् + अ → द; त् + म).
FAQs
The verse attributes the emanation of specific Vedic liturgical elements—Bṛhat-sāman, Uktha recitations, Sāman chants, the Jagatī metre, and a seventeenfold stoma-pattern—to Brahmā’s southern mouth, symbolizing ordered revelation of sacred sound.
Jagatī is a Vedic metrical form (chandas) used to structure hymns, while stoma refers to a formal chant/hymn arrangement in Soma-ritual contexts; ‘seventeenfold’ indicates a recognized numerical classification of such stoma-structures.
By presenting Vedic metres and chants as emanating from Brahmā, the text frames sacred speech (śabda) and ritual order as primordial features of creation—linking cosmology with the authority and structure of Vedic revelation.