Shloka 67
Adhyaya 45 — Jaimini’s Cosmological Questions and the Opening of Markandeya’s Account of Primary Creation
दीपाद्यद्रिसमुद्राश्च राज्योतिर्लोकसंग्रहः ।
जलानिलानलाकाशैस्ततो भूतादिना बहिः ॥
dīpādyadrisamudrāś ca rājyotirlokasaṃgrahaḥ | jalānilānalākāśais tato bhūtādinā bahiḥ
त्यात द्वीपादी, पर्वत व समुद्र होते, तसेच प्रकाश व लोकधामांसह लोकांची रचना होती. त्याच्या बाहेर क्रमाने जल, वायु, अग्नी व आकाश अशी आवरणे होती; आणि पुढे भूतादीपासून आरंभ होणारी तत्त्वे होती.
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FAQs
The cosmos is depicted as ordered (saṃgraha), not chaotic; the intelligibility of the world is grounded in layered principles (from geography to elements).
Sarga: mapping the created world and its elemental envelopes.
The outward progression from worlds to elements mirrors meditative ‘withdrawal’ in reverse: one can contemplate dissolving gross structures into subtler layers.