Shloka 19
Adhyaya 48 — The Emanation of Beings from Brahma: Night, Day, Twilight, and the Orders of Creation
तदन्धकारे क्षुत्क्षामानसृजद् भगवानजः ।
विरूपान् श्मश्रुलानत्तुमारब्धास्ते च तां तनुम् ॥
tad-andhakāre kṣut-kṣāmān asṛjad bhagavān ajaḥ / virūpān śmaśrulān attum ārabdhās te ca tāṃ tanum
त्या अंधकारात भगवन् अज (अजन्मा) यांनी भुकेने कृश झालेले, विकृत व दाढीधारी प्राणी निर्माण केले; आणि ते त्या शरीराला भक्षण करण्यास प्रवृत्त झाले।
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FAQs
When desire (hunger) operates in darkness (ignorance), it produces distorted tendencies that ‘consume’ their very basis—an ethical warning about unchecked appetites.
Sarga: generation of classes of beings from a rajas-tamas condition.
The ‘devouring of the body’ can symbolize self-consuming cravings: tamasic drives attempt to appropriate the very ‘form’ of consciousness that generated them.