Shloka 8

आभ्यन्तरध्यान-तत्त्वगणना-चतुर्व्यूहयोगः

Adhyaya 28

Devanagari script

महांस् तथा त्वहङ्कारं तन्मात्रं पञ्चकं पुनः कर्मेन्द्रियाणि पञ्चैव तथा बुद्धीन्द्रियाणि च

Transliteration

mahāṃs tathā tvahaṅkāraṃ tanmātraṃ pañcakaṃ punaḥ karmendriyāṇi pañcaiva tathā buddhīndriyāṇi ca

Translation

プラクリティ（Prakṛti）よりマハト（Mahat、宇宙知）が生じ、次いでアハンカーラ（Ahaṅkāra）—「我」の感覚の原理—が起こる。さらに五つのタンマートラ（tanmātra、微細要素）が生じ、五つの行為器官（karmendriya）と、同じく五つの認識器官（buddhīndriya）が現れる。かくしてパシュ（paśu）に対し束縛の縄（paśa）が展開し、主宰（Pati）たるシヴァ（Śiva）のもとでそれが制御されるに至る。

Word by Word

• महान्/महांस्: Mahat, cosmic intellect

• तथा: and/then

• तु: indeed

• अहङ्कारम्: ahaṅkāra, ego-principle/I-sense

• तन्मात्रम्: tanmātra, subtle element

• पञ्चकम्: set of five

• पुनः: again/thereafter

• कर्मेन्द्रियाणि: organs of action (speech, hands, feet, excretion, generation)

• पञ्च: five

• एव: indeed/only

• तथा: likewise

• बुद्धीन्द्रियाणि: organs of knowledge (hearing, touch, sight, taste, smell)

• च: and

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating the cosmological teaching within the Linga Purana discourse)