Shloka 14
पञ्चमहाभूतगुण-इन्द्रियनिग्रह-उपदेशः | Teaching on the Qualities of the Five Elements and Sense-Control
उत्तडुक उवाच त्वया देव प्रजा: सर्वा: ससुरासुरमानवा: । स्थावराणि च भूतानि जड़मानि तथैव च,उत्तड़क बोले--देव! देवता, असुर, मनुष्य आदि सारी प्रजा आपसे ही उत्पन्न हुई है। समस्त स्थावर-जंगम प्राणियोंकी सृष्टि भी आपने ही की है
uṭṭaḍuka uvāca tvayā deva prajāḥ sarvāḥ sasurāsuramānavāḥ | sthāvarāṇi ca bhūtāni jaḍamānī tathaiva ca ||
ಉತ್ತಂಕನು ಹೇಳಿದರು—ದೇವಾ! ದೇವತೆಗಳು, ಅಸುರರು, ಮಾನವರು ಸೇರಿ ಸಮಸ್ತ ಪ್ರಜೆಗಳು ನಿನ್ನಿಂದಲೇ ಉದ್ಭವಿಸಿದ್ದಾರೆ. ಸ್ಥಾವರ-ಜಂಗಮವೆನ್ನುವ ಎಲ್ಲಾ ಭೂತಪ್ರಾಣಿಗಳೂ ನಿನ್ನ ಸೃಷ್ಟಿಯೇ.
उत्तडुक उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse affirms a comprehensive divine causality: all categories of existence—celestial, demonic, human, mobile and immobile, even inert entities—are traced back to the Lord as their source, grounding reverence in the recognition of a single sustaining origin.
Uṭṭaḍuka addresses a deity with a praise-filled statement of origin, acknowledging that every class of beings and the entire created order proceeds from that divine power, setting a devotional and cosmological frame for the surrounding discourse.