Markandeya Purana — Adhyaya 47, Shloka 2
Adhyaya 47 — Brahma’s Awakening and the Ninefold Scheme of Creation
मार्कण्डेय उवाच—
कथयाम्येष ते ब्रह्मन् ससर्ज भगवान् यथा ।
लोककृत् शाश्वतः कृत्स्नं जगत् स्थावरजङ्गमम् ॥
mārkaṇḍeya uvāca kathayāmy eṣa te brahman sasarja bhagavān yathā / lokakṛc chāśvataḥ kṛtsnaṃ jagat sthāvarajaṅgamam
मार्कण्डेय ने कहा—हे ब्राह्मण, मैं तुम्हें बताऊँगा कि भगवान्, जो नित्य लोककर्ता हैं, उन्होंने स्थावर और जंगम सहित समस्त जगत् की सृष्टि कैसे की।
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FAQs
The world is portrayed as an ordered totality (‘kṛtsnaṃ jagat’), inviting a dharmic attitude: one’s actions should harmonize with a structured cosmos, not merely personal desire.
Directly ‘Sarga’: narration of the origination of the manifested world, including categorical division into moving and unmoving beings.
‘Sthāvara–jaṅgama’ can be read inwardly as the stable and the restless in consciousness; creation is the arising of both stillness-forms and movement-forms from a single source.