Markandeya Purana — Adhyaya 45, Shloka 69
Adhyaya 45 — Jaimini’s Cosmological Questions and the Opening of Markandeya’s Account of Primary Creation
महांस्तैः सहितः सर्वैरव्यक्तेन समावृतः ।
एभिरावरणैरण्डं सप्तभैः प्राकृतैर्वृतम् ॥
mahāṃs taiḥ sahitaḥ sarvair avyaktena samāvṛtaḥ | ebhir āvaraṇair aṇḍaṃ saptabhaiḥ prākṛtair vṛtam
महत् तत्त्व उन सब (तत्त्वों) सहित अव्यक्त से आच्छादित है। इन सात प्राकृत आवरणों से यह ब्रह्माण्ड घिरा हुआ है।
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FAQs
The manifest rests upon the unmanifest: visible reality is dependent on subtler causal strata, encouraging humility about sensory knowledge.
Sarga: enumeration of tattvas and their enclosing function around the cosmos.
Avyakta as the ultimate veil implies that liberation/knowledge requires penetrating beyond even cosmic intellect (mahat) into the unmanifest causal ground.