Markandeya Purana — Adhyaya 45, Shloka 41
Adhyaya 45 — Jaimini’s Cosmological Questions and the Opening of Markandeya’s Account of Primary Creation
स्पर्शतन्मात्रमेवेह जायते नात्र संशयः ।
बलवान् जायते वायुस् तस्य स्पर्शगुणो मतः ॥
sparśatanmātram eveha jāyate nātra saṃśayaḥ | balavān jāyate vāyus tasya sparśaguṇo mataḥ ||
यहाँ स्पर्श-तन्मात्र का सूक्ष्म तत्त्व उत्पन्न होता है—इसमें संदेह नहीं। फिर महान् वायु प्रकट होता है, जिसका गुण स्पर्श माना गया है।
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FAQs
Qualities (guṇas) are treated as diagnostic markers of reality-levels. In practice, it encourages observing experience (touch, movement) as properties of nature rather than of the self.
Sarga: continues the generation of mahābhūtas from their corresponding tanmātras.
Vāyu symbolizes prāṇa and dynamism; mastering ‘touch/movement’ inwardly hints at prāṇāyāma and regulation of life-force.