Shloka 69

Adhyaya 17: लिङ्गोद्भव—ब्रह्मविष्ण्वहङ्कार-शमनं, ओंकार-प्रादुर्भावः, मन्त्र-तत्त्वं च

Devanagari script

तस्मादण्डोद्भवो जज्ञे त्व् अकाराख्यश्चतुर्मुखः स स्रष्टा सर्वलोकानां स एव त्रिविधः प्रभुः

Transliteration

tasmādaṇḍodbhavo jajñe tv akārākhyaścaturmukhaḥ sa sraṣṭā sarvalokānāṃ sa eva trividhaḥ prabhuḥ

Translation

അവിടെ നിന്ന് അണ്ഡോദ്ഭവനായ ‘അകാര’ എന്ന ചതുര്മുഖൻ (ബ്രഹ്മാവ്) ജനിച്ചു. അവൻ സർവ്വലോകങ്ങളുടെ സ്രഷ്ടാവാണ്; അതേ പ്രഭു ത്രിവിധമായി പ്രത്യക്ഷപ്പെടുന്നു.

Word by Word

• तस्मात्: from that (source)

• अण्ड-उद्भवः: born from the cosmic egg

• जज्ञे: was born

• तु: indeed

• अकार-आख्यः: named/known as ‘A-kāra’

• चतुर्मुखः: four-faced (Brahmā)

• सः: he

• स्रष्टा: creator

• सर्व-लोकानाम्: of all worlds

• सः एव: he alone/indeed he

• त्रिविधः: threefold (as the triad of cosmic functions)

• प्रभुः: Lord, sovereign

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating the cosmogony within the Linga Purana framework)