Shloka 17
धर्मद्वारबहुत्वविमर्शः — Reflection on the Many ‘Doors’ of Dharma (Śānti-parva 342)
प्रसादात् प्रादुरभवत् पद्म पद्मनिभेक्षण । ततो ब्रह्मा समभवत् स तस्यैव प्रसादज:
prasādāt prādurabhavat padma padmanibhekṣaṇa | tato brahmā samabhavat sa tasyaiva prasādajaḥ ||
हे कमलनयन! उसके प्रसाद से एक कमल प्रकट हुआ। फिर उसी से ब्रह्मा प्रकट हुए; वे ब्रह्मा उसी प्रभु के प्रसाद से उत्पन्न हैं।
अर्जुन उवाच
Educational Q&A
Creation is presented as dependent on divine grace: even Brahmā’s emergence is traced to the Lord’s prasāda, emphasizing devotion and the primacy of the supreme source over secondary creators.
Arjuna describes a cosmogonic sequence: by the Lord’s favor a lotus manifests, and from that lotus Brahmā arises—explicitly stated to be born from that same divine grace.