Padma Purana — Srishti Khanda, Shloka 14018
Brahmā’s Lotus-Birth, Puṣkara-Creation Imagery, Madhu–Kaiṭabha, and Early Genealogies
शनैः स्वयंभूर्व्यसृजत्सुषुप्तं जगन्मयः पद्मनिधिं महार्णवे । विघ्नस्तपसि संभूतो मधुर्नाम महासुरः
śanaiḥ svayaṃbhūrvyasṛjatsuṣuptaṃ jaganmayaḥ padmanidhiṃ mahārṇave | vighnastapasi saṃbhūto madhurnāma mahāsuraḥ
ಕ್ರಮೇಣ ಜಗನ್ಮಯ ಸ್ವಯಂಭೂ (ಬ್ರಹ್ಮ) ಗಾಢನಿದ್ರೆಯಲ್ಲಿರುವಂತೆ ಮಹಾಸಮುದ್ರದಲ್ಲಿ ಪದ್ಮನಿಧಿಯನ್ನು ಸೃಷ್ಟಿಸಿದನು. ತಪಸ್ಸಿನಲ್ಲಿ ಉಂಟಾದ ವಿಘ್ನದಿಂದ ‘ಮಧು’ ಎಂಬ ಮಹಾಸುರನು ಜನ್ಮಿಸಿದನು।
Narrator (sectional Purāṇic narration; specific dialogue-speaker not explicit in this single verse)
Primary Rasa: adbhuta
Secondary Rasa: bhayanaka
Type: celestial_realm
Sandhi Resolution Notes: स्वयंभूर्व्यसृजत् = स्वयंभूः + व्यसृजत्; व्यसृजत्सुषुप्तं = व्यसृजत् + सुषुप्तम्; जगन्मयः = जगत् + मयः; मधुर्नाम = मधुः + नाम; विघ्नस्तपसि = विघ्नः + तपसि
FAQs
It evokes the Purāṇic creation scene of the cosmic ocean (mahārṇava) and the lotus as a primordial, precious source/seat associated with Brahmā’s emergence and creative activity.
Madhu is identified as a “great asura.” This verse presents him as arising as a vighna—an impediment—connected with the period of tapas (austerity).
It suggests a cosmological vision where the creator is portrayed as suffused with, or constituted by, the universe—creation unfolding from a reality already permeated by cosmic totality.