Shloka 12

अविद्या-पञ्चक, नवसर्ग-क्रमः, प्रजापति-प्रसवः

Vibhaga 1, Adhyaya 5

Devanagari script

संकल्पश्चैव धर्मश् च ह्य् अधर्मो धर्मसंनिधिः द्वादशैव प्रजास्त्वेता ब्रह्मणो ऽव्यक्तजन्मनः

Transliteration

saṃkalpaścaiva dharmaś ca hy adharmo dharmasaṃnidhiḥ dvādaśaiva prajāstvetā brahmaṇo 'vyaktajanmanaḥ

Translation

संकल्प, धर्म, अधर्म और ‘धर्म-सन्निधि’—ये अव्यक्त से उत्पन्न ब्रह्मा की बारह प्रजाएँ (प्रजाजनक तत्त्व) हैं। इनके द्वारा व्यवस्था और अव्यवस्था का विस्तार होता है, जबकि प्रभु (पति) भीतर साक्षी रूप से स्थित रहते हैं।

Word by Word

• संकल्पः (saṅkalpaḥ): volition, formative intention

• च एव (ca eva): and indeed

• धर्मः (dharmaḥ): cosmic law, virtue, sustaining order

• च (ca): and

• हि (hi): indeed

• अधर्मः (adharmaḥ): non-law, disorder, vice

• धर्मसंनिधिः (dharma-saṃnidhiḥ): proximity/presence or seat of dharma, the condition in which dharma is established

• द्वादश (dvādaśa): twelve

• एव (eva): only/precisely

• प्रजाः (prajāḥ): progenitive beings/principles, generative emanations

• तु (tu): but/indeed

• एताः (etāḥ): these

• ब्रह्मणः (brahmaṇaḥ): of Brahmā (the creator)

• अव्यक्तजन्मनः (avyakta-janmanaḥ): whose birth/origin is from the Unmanifest (avyakta).

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating the creation account to the sages, with the Purana’s internal cosmology centered on Brahmā’s emanations under Shiva’s supreme oversight)