Adhyaya 45 — Jaimini’s Cosmological Questions and the Opening of Markandeya’s Account of Primary Creation
तेन सर्वमिदं व्याप्तं त्रैलोक्यं सचराचरम् ।
मेरुस्तस्यानुसंभूतो जरायुश्चापि पर्वताः ॥
tena sarvam idaṃ vyāptaṃ trailokyaṃ sacarācaram | merus tasyānusambhūto jarāyuś cāpi parvatāḥ
त्या तत्त्वाने चराचरांसह हे सर्व त्रैलोक्य व्यापले गेले. त्या ब्रह्मांडातून मेरू उत्पन्न झाला, आणि पर्वत जणू त्याची जरायु (आवरण-झिल्ली) होते.
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The verse stresses a unified pervasion: the cosmos is not a collection of unrelated parts but a single, pervaded totality in which even geography (Meru, mountains) is read as organic structure.
Primarily Sarga (primary creation/cosmogenesis), describing the arising of cosmic structures from the brahmāṇḍa.
Mountains as jarāyu (membrane) suggests the world as an embryo: the universe is ‘gestated’ within prakṛti, and the visible boundaries of the world mirror protective, formative coverings.