Shloka 49

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

Devanagari script

विशेषाश्चेन्द्रियग्राह्या नियतत्वाच्च ते स्मृताः गुणं पूर्वस्य सर्गस्य प्राप्नुवन्त्युत्तरोत्तराः

Transliteration

viśeṣāścendriyagrāhyā niyatatvācca te smṛtāḥ guṇaṃ pūrvasya sargasya prāpnuvantyuttarottarāḥ

Translation

これらの別相(viśeṣa)は感官によって把握されるゆえ、定まったものとして記憶される。創造の連なる段階において、後の創造は前の創造の性質を一段一段と受け継ぐ—主宰者パティ(Pati)、すなわちシヴァ(Śiva)により統べられた秩序ある展開に従って。

Word by Word

• viśeṣāḥ: particular characteristics, specific differentiations

• ca: and

• indriya-grāhyāḥ: grasped by the senses

• niyatatvāt: because of determinateness/definiteness

• ca: and

• te: they

• smṛtāḥ: are remembered/declared

• guṇam: the quality/attribute

• pūrvasya: of the prior/previous

• sargasya: creation/emission

• prāpnuvanti: attain/come to have

• uttarottarāḥ: the later and later (successive stages)

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating the cosmological teaching as received in the Purana)