Shloka 12

Adhyaya 49 — Primordial Human Creation, the Rise of Desire, and the Origins of Settlements, Measures, and Agriculture

Sanskrit

इत्येषा मानुषी सृष्टिर्या पूर्वं वै प्रजापतेः ।

तस्यान्ववायसम्भूता यैरिदं पूरितं जगत् ॥

Transliteration

ity eṣā mānuṣī sṛṣṭir yā pūrvaṃ vai prajāpateḥ |

tasyānvavāyasambhūtā yair idaṃ pūritaṃ jagat ||

Translation

ଏହି ମାନବ ସୃଷ୍ଟି ପୂର୍ବେ ପ୍ରଜାପତିଙ୍କର ଥିଲା। ତାହାର ବଂଶପରମ୍ପରାରେ ଜନ୍ମିଥିବା ପ୍ରଜାମାନେ ଏହି ଜଗତକୁ ପୂର୍ଣ୍ଣ କଲେ।

Word by Word

• iti: thus
• iti: Sambandha (सम्बन्ध/quotative marker)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: iti (अव्यय)
• Form: Quotative particle (इति-प्रयोग), indeclinable (अव्यय)

• eṣā: this (she/this one)
• eṣā: Karta (कर्ता/subject)
• Type: Noun
• Root: etad (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Feminine (स्त्रीलिङ्ग), Nominative (प्रथमा/1), Singular (एकवचन)

• mānuṣī: human
• mānuṣī: Viśeṣaṇa (विशेषण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: mānuṣī (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Feminine (स्त्रीलिङ्ग), Nominative (प्रथमा/1), Singular (एकवचन); adjective qualifying सृष्टिः

• sṛṣṭiḥ: creation
• sṛṣṭiḥ: Karta (कर्ता/subject)
• Type: Noun
• Root: sṛṣṭi (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Feminine (स्त्रीलिङ्ग), Nominative (प्रथमा/1), Singular (एकवचन)

• yā: which
• yā: Karta (कर्ता/relative subject)
• Type: Noun
• Root: yad (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Feminine (स्त्रीलिङ्ग), Nominative (प्रथमा/1), Singular (एकवचन); relative pronoun referring to सृष्टिः

• pūrvam: formerly, earlier
• pūrvam: Kāla-adhikaraṇa (कालाधिकरण/time)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: pūrva (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Adverbial accusative (क्रियाविशेषण-रूपेण), indeclinable usage (अव्ययवत्)

• vai: indeed
• vai: Sambandha (सम्बन्ध/particle)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: vai (अव्यय)
• Form: Emphatic particle (निश्चयार्थक/खल्वर्थक), indeclinable (अव्यय)

• prajāpateḥ: of Prajāpati
• prajāpateḥ: Sambandha (सम्बन्ध/possessor)
• Type: Noun
• Root: prajāpati (प्रातिपदिक; prajā+pati)
• Form: Masculine (पुंलिङ्ग), Genitive (षष्ठी/6), Singular (एकवचन)

• tasyāḥ: of that (creation)
• tasyāḥ: Sambandha (सम्बन्ध/of it)
• Type: Noun
• Root: tad (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Feminine (स्त्रीलिङ्ग), Genitive (षष्ठी/6), Singular (एकवचन); refers to सृष्टिः

• anvavāya-sambhūtāḥ: born in succession/lineage
• anvavāya-sambhūtāḥ: Karta (कर्ता/subject—those born)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: anvavāya (प्रातिपदिक) + sambhūta (कृदन्त; सम्+भू धातु, क्त)
• Form: Feminine (स्त्रीलिङ्ग), Nominative (प्रथमा/1), Plural (बहुवचन); past passive participle (क्त/PPP) used adjectivally; agrees with implied स्त्रियः/प्रजाः

• yaiḥ: by whom/with whom
• yaiḥ: Karaṇa (करण/instrument/agentive means)
• Type: Noun
• Root: yad (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Masculine/Neuter (पुं/नपुंसक), Instrumental (तृतीया/3), Plural (बहुवचन); relative pronoun

• idam: this
• idam: Karta (कर्ता/subject)
• Type: Noun
• Root: idam (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Neuter (नपुंसकलिङ्ग), Nominative (प्रथमा/1), Singular (एकवचन)

• pūritam: filled
• pūritam: Viśeṣaṇa (विशेषण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: pūr (धातु) → pūrita (कृदन्त; क्त/PPP)
• Form: Neuter (नपुंसकलिङ्ग), Nominative (प्रथमा/1), Singular (एकवचन); past passive participle (क्त) qualifying इदम्/जगत्

• jagat: world
• jagat: Karta (कर्ता/apposition to idam)
• Type: Noun
• Root: jagat (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Neuter (नपुंसकलिङ्ग), Nominative (प्रथमा/1), Singular (एकवचन)

Speakers

• Narrative voice within the Purāṇic account (frame-speaker not specified in input)

Verse Rasa

{ "primaryRasa": "shanta", "secondaryRasa": "adbhuta", "rasaIntensity": 0, "emotionalArcPosition": "", "moodDescriptors": [] }

Primary Deities

• Prajāpati

Key Themes

• Cosmology
• Sarga (creation)
• Genealogy/lineage (vaṃśa)
• Population of the world

FAQs

What is the philosophical or ethical takeaway?

Humanity is framed as a deliberate, ordered production under Prajāpati, and social continuity is rooted in lineage (anvavāya). The ethical undertone is responsibility: one’s conduct sustains or degrades what was ‘instituted’ at creation.

How does this fit the Pancalakṣaṇa (5 characteristics)?

Sarga shading into Vaṃśa/Anucarita elements: it summarizes creation and immediately gestures to descent and world-population through successive generations.

What is the esoteric significance?

Prajāpati represents the archetype of ordering intelligence that turns potentiality into a structured human world. ‘Filling the world’ also implies the filling of the ‘field of experience’ (jagat) by proliferating identifications.