Shloka 141

Adhyaya 70: आदिसर्गः—महत्-अहङ्कार-तन्मात्रा-भूतसृष्टिः, ब्रह्माण्डावरणम्, प्रजासर्गः, त्रिमूर्ति-शैवाधिष्ठानम्

Devanagari script

अविद्या पञ्चपर्वैषा प्रादुर्भूता महात्मनः पञ्चधावस्थितः सर्गो ध्यायतः सो ऽभिमानिनः

Transliteration

avidyā pañcaparvaiṣā prādurbhūtā mahātmanaḥ pañcadhāvasthitaḥ sargo dhyāyataḥ so 'bhimāninaḥ

Translation

その大いなる存在が「我」という自負（アビマーナ）に同一化して観想しているとき、五節より成る無明（アヴィディヤー）が顕現し、創造は五種のあり方として定立した。

Word by Word

• अविद्या: ignorance (pāśa, bondage)

• पञ्चपर्वा: five-jointed, having five divisions

• एषा: this

• प्रादुर्भूता: manifested, arose

• महात्मनः: from the great one (cosmic principle, mahat)

• पञ्चधा: in five ways

• अवस्थितः: established, arranged

• सर्गः: creation, emanation

• ध्यायतः: of one who contemplates/meditates

• सः: he

• अभिमानिनः: of the self-identified one, possessed of ego-sense

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating the cosmological teaching to the sages of Naimisharanya)