Shloka 81

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

Devanagari script

ईश्वरस्तु परो देवो विष्णुश् च महतः परः ब्रह्मा च रजसा युक्तः सर्गादौ हि प्रवर्तते

Transliteration

īśvarastu paro devo viṣṇuś ca mahataḥ paraḥ brahmā ca rajasā yuktaḥ sargādau hi pravartate

Translation

イーシュヴァラは至上の神（デーヴァ）であり、ヴィシュヌはマハト（宇宙知性）をも超える。ラジャスと結びつくブラフマーは、創造の初めにまさに発動して、流出（えまん）という生成の過程を開示する。

Word by Word

• īśvaraḥ: Īśvara (the Lord, Pati)

• tu: indeed

• paraḥ: supreme/transcendent

• devaḥ: deity/lord

• viṣṇuḥ: Viṣṇu (all-pervader)

• ca: and

• mahataḥ: from/beyond Mahat-tattva (cosmic intellect)

• paraḥ: higher than/transcending

• brahmā: Brahmā (creator)

• ca: and

• rajasā: with rajas (the activating guṇa)

• yuktaḥ: joined/endowed

• sarga-ādau: at the beginning of creation

• hi: surely/indeed

• pravartate: begins/sets in motion/engages

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating Linga Purana’s cosmology to the sages at Naimisharanya)