Shloka 55
Adhyaya 45 — Jaimini’s Cosmological Questions and the Opening of Markandeya’s Account of Primary Creation
तस्माच्चतुर्गुणा ह्यापो विज्ञेयास्ता रसात्मिकाः ।
शब्दः स्पर्शश्च रूपञ्च रसो गन्धं समाविशत् ॥
tasmāccaturguṇā hyāpo vijñeyāstā rasātmikāḥ / śabdaḥ sparśaśca rūpañca raso gandhaṃ samāviśat
അതുകൊണ്ട് ജലം രസസ്വഭാവമുള്ള നാലു ഗുണങ്ങളുള്ളതെന്ന് അറിയണം. ശബ്ദം, സ്പർശം, രൂപം, രസം എന്നിവ ക്രമമായി ഗന്ധത്തിൽ പ്രവേശിച്ച് അതിന്റെ കാരണങ്ങളായി നിലകൊണ്ടു.
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FAQs
The verse teaches a graded ontology: subtler sensory potentials (sound, touch, form, taste) are progressively included as the elements become ‘denser,’ culminating toward smell. Ethically, it supports discernment (viveka): the experienced world is a composite of qualities, not an ultimate self.
Sarga (primary creation): it describes the constitution of the elements and the sequential emergence of sensory qualities (tanmātras/guṇas) in the created order.
The ‘entry’ (anupraveśa) of qualities implies interpenetration: gross experience is layered with subtler principles. In inner practice, it hints that sense-fields can be traced back (pratyāhāra-like) from gross to subtle, reversing the outward-moving creation sequence.