Shloka 19
Adhyaya 48 — The Emanation of Beings from Brahma: Night, Day, Twilight, and the Orders of Creation
तदन्धकारे क्षुत्क्षामानसृजद् भगवानजः ।
विरूपान् श्मश्रुलानत्तुमारब्धास्ते च तां तनुम् ॥
tad-andhakāre kṣut-kṣāmān asṛjad bhagavān ajaḥ / virūpān śmaśrulān attum ārabdhās te ca tāṃ tanum
その闇の中で、福徳ある不生の者アジャ（Aja）は、飢えに衰えた衆生—形の歪み、髭をたくわえた者ども—を創り、彼らはその身を食らおうとし始めた。
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FAQs
When desire (hunger) operates in darkness (ignorance), it produces distorted tendencies that ‘consume’ their very basis—an ethical warning about unchecked appetites.
Sarga: generation of classes of beings from a rajas-tamas condition.
The ‘devouring of the body’ can symbolize self-consuming cravings: tamasic drives attempt to appropriate the very ‘form’ of consciousness that generated them.