Shiva Purana — Vayaviya Samhita, Shloka 67
सर्गविभागवर्णनम्
Classification of Creation: the Nine Sargas and the Streams of Beings
विनियोगं च भूतानां धातैव व्यदधत्स्वयम् । नाम रूपं च भूतानां प्राकृतानां प्रपञ्चनम् । वेदशब्देभ्य एवादौ निर्ममे ऽसौ पितामहः । आर्षाणि चैव नामानि याश्च वेदेषु वृत्तयः
viniyogaṃ ca bhūtānāṃ dhātaiva vyadadhatsvayam | nāma rūpaṃ ca bhūtānāṃ prākṛtānāṃ prapañcanam | vedaśabdebhya evādau nirmame 'sau pitāmahaḥ | ārṣāṇi caiva nāmāni yāśca vedeṣu vṛttayaḥ
Le Créateur (Brahmā) assigna lui-même les fonctions propres à tous les êtres, et déploya la diversité manifeste des éléments naturels en fixant leurs noms et leurs formes. Au commencement, ce Grand-Père des mondes façonna ces désignations à partir des mots mêmes du Veda : tant les noms des voyants (ārṣa) que les usages et tournures présents dans les Vedas.
Suta Goswami (narrating the cosmological account involving Brahma in the Vayu Samhita)
Tattva Level: pasha
Shiva Form: Īśāna
Type: rudram
Cosmic Event: nāma-rūpa-prapañca: ordering of manifestation through Vedic śabda
FAQs
It explains how the manifest world is ordered through nāma-rūpa (name and form) and function, derived from Vedic revelation; in Shaiva Siddhanta this highlights that such ordering belongs to prakṛti and its governance, while liberation comes by turning to Pati (Shiva), who transcends and regulates name-form.
Since Brahmā structures the world through names and forms, Saguna worship uses sacred names, mantras, and symbols; the Linga is a sanctified focus that leads the devotee from form-based devotion toward Shiva’s formless, supreme reality beyond all prapañca.
Japa of Vedic-Shiva mantras (especially the Panchakshara, “Om Namaḥ Śivāya”) with contemplation that all nāma-rūpa are ordered powers of prakṛti, while Shiva is the inner Lord (Pati) to be realized beyond them.