ब्रह्मांडं संवृतं ह्येतत्कटाहेन समंततः । कपित्थस्य यथा बीजं कटाहेन सुसंवृतम्
brahmāṃḍaṃ saṃvṛtaṃ hyetatkaṭāhena samaṃtataḥ | kapitthasya yathā bījaṃ kaṭāhena susaṃvṛtam
ಈ ಬ್ರಹ್ಮಾಂಡವು ಎಲ್ಲ ದಿಕ್ಕುಗಳಿಂದಲೂ ಕಟಾಹದಂತಿರುವ ಆವರಣದಿಂದ ಆವೃತವಾಗಿದೆ; ಹೇಗೆ ಕಪಿತ್ಥ (ಕೈಥ) ಹಣ್ಣಿನ ಬೀಜವು ಅದರ ಕಠಿಣ ಹೊಳಪಿನಲ್ಲಿ ಬಿಗಿಯಾಗಿ ಮುಚ್ಚಲ್ಪಟ್ಟಿರುತ್ತದೋ ಹಾಗೆ।
Lomaharṣaṇa (Sūta) to the sages
Listener: Pārtha (Arjuna)
Scene: A vast luminous brahmāṇḍa depicted as an egg-like sphere encased in a dark, cauldron-thick shell; beside it, a wood-apple (kapittha) cut open showing a tightly enclosed seed—visual analogy linking micro and macro.
The cosmos is depicted as a bounded, ordered system—an image that supports contemplation on the vastness yet finitude of manifested creation.
None; this is a cosmological analogy.
None.