Shloka 34

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

Devanagari script

ज्योतिश्चापि विकुर्वाणं रसमात्रं ससर्ज ह सम्भवन्ति ततो ह्यापस् ता वै सर्वरसात्मिकाः

Transliteration

jyotiścāpi vikurvāṇaṃ rasamātraṃ sasarja ha sambhavanti tato hyāpas tā vai sarvarasātmikāḥ

Translation

原初の光ジョーティスは変容して、味・精髄の可能態（rasa-mātra）を生み出した。そこから水（āpas）が生起し、その水はまことにあらゆる味と精の本性である。

Word by Word

• jyotiḥ: primordial light, luminous principle

• ca api: and also

• vikurvāṇam: transforming, modifying itself

• rasa-mātram: the mere essence/principle of taste (rasa-tattva)

• sasarja: created, emitted

• ha: indeed (particle)

• sambhavanti: come into being, arise

• tataḥ: from that

• hi: indeed

• āpaḥ: the Waters (cosmic water principle)

• tāḥ: those

• vai: verily

• sarva-rasa-ātmikāḥ: whose essence is all rasa (all tastes/essences)

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating the cosmic creation sequence as taught in the Linga Purana)