Markandeya Purana — Adhyaya 52, Shloka 1
Adhyaya 52 — The Manifestation of Nilalohita (Rudra) and the Allocation of His Names, Abodes, Consorts, and Lineages
इति श्रीमार्कण्डेयपुराणे दुः सहोत्पत्तिसमापनं नामैकपञ्चाशौऽध्यायः द्विपञ्चाशोऽध्यायः—
मार्कण्डेय उवाच ।
इत्येष तामसः सर्गो ब्रह्मणोऽव्यक्तजन्मनः ।
रुद्रसर्गं प्रवक्ष्यामि तन्मे निगदतः शृणु ॥
iti śrīmārkaṇḍeyapurāṇe duḥsahotpattisamāpanaṃ nāmaikapañcāśau ’dhyāyaḥ dvipañcāśo ’dhyāyaḥ—
mārkaṇḍeya uvāca |
ity eṣa tāmasaḥ sargo brahmaṇo ’vyaktajanmanaḥ /
rudrasargaṃ pravakṣyāmi tan me nigadataḥ śṛṇu
ဤသို့ဖြင့် «သီရိ မာရ္ကဏ္ဍေယ ပုရာဏ» အတွင်း “ဒုဿဟ၏ မူလဖြစ်ပေါ်ခြင်း၏ နိဂုံး” ဟု ခေါ်သော ငါးဆယ့်တစ်ခန်း ပြီးဆုံး၏။ မာရ္ကဏ္ဍေယက ဆိုသည်— “မမြင်နိုင်သော အဗျက္တမှ မွေးဖွားသော ဘြဟ္မာ၏ တာမသ (tāmasa) ဖန်ဆင်းခြင်းသည် ဤသို့ နိဂုံးချုပ်၏။ ယခု ရုဒြနှင့် ဆက်နွယ်သော ဖန်ဆင်းခြင်းကို ငါဖော်ပြမည်; ငါကြေညာသကဲ့သို့ နားထောင်ကြလော့”။
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FAQs
The Purāṇa organizes reality through graded creations (sargas), implying that the cosmos unfolds through distinct modalities (guṇas) and divine functions; attentive listening to such accounts is framed as a means of right understanding.
Directly under Sarga (creation): it explicitly names a tāmasa sarga and announces the Rudra-sarga to follow.
‘Born of the unmanifest’ points to avyakta as the subtle ground of manifestation; the shift to Rudra-sarga signals the emergence of transformative/destructive power as an essential cosmic principle within the cycle of manifestation.