Shloka 21
Adhyaya 46 — Cosmic Dissolution, the Emergence of Brahma, and the Measures of Time (Yugas, Manvantaras, and Brahma’s Day)
हिरण्यगर्भो देवादिरनादिरुपचारतः ।
भूपद्मकर्णिकासंस्थो ब्रह्माग्रे समजायत ॥
hiraṇyagarbho devādir anādir upacārataḥ | bhūpadmakarṇikāsaṃstho brahmāgre samajāyata ||
हिरण्यगर्भ—देवांमध्ये प्रथम, उपचारार्थ अनादी—तोच ब्रह्मा पृथ्वी-रूपी कमळाच्या कर्णिकेवर स्थित होऊन आदौ जन्मला.
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FAQs
The verse links Purāṇic imagery (lotus-seat) with Vedic cosmogony (Hiraṇyagarbha), implying continuity between revelation and mythic narration. It encourages seeing symbolic narratives as vehicles for metaphysical teaching.
Sarga: it describes the primordial arising of Brahmā/Hiraṇyagarbha as the first manifest organizer of creation.
The lotus-pericarp seat symbolizes a centered origin-point from which structured worlds unfold—analogous to the ‘bindu’ or central axis in contemplative cosmologies.