Shloka 69

Adhyaya 17: लिङ्गोद्भव—ब्रह्मविष्ण्वहङ्कार-शमनं, ओंकार-प्रादुर्भावः, मन्त्र-तत्त्वं च

Devanagari script

तस्मादण्डोद्भवो जज्ञे त्व् अकाराख्यश्चतुर्मुखः स स्रष्टा सर्वलोकानां स एव त्रिविधः प्रभुः

Transliteration

tasmādaṇḍodbhavo jajñe tv akārākhyaścaturmukhaḥ sa sraṣṭā sarvalokānāṃ sa eva trividhaḥ prabhuḥ

Translation

ਉਥੋਂ ਅੰਡ ਤੋਂ ਉਤਪੰਨ ‘ਅਕਾਰ’ ਨਾਮ ਵਾਲਾ ਚਤੁਰਮੁਖ (ਬ੍ਰਹਮਾ) ਜਨਮਿਆ। ਉਹੀ ਸਭ ਲੋਕਾਂ ਦਾ ਸ੍ਰਿਸ਼ਟਿਕਰਤਾ ਹੈ; ਅਤੇ ਉਹੀ ਪ੍ਰਭੂ ਤ੍ਰਿਵਿਧ ਰੂਪ ਵਿੱਚ ਪ੍ਰਗਟ ਹੁੰਦਾ ਹੈ।

Word by Word

• तस्मात्: from that (source)

• अण्ड-उद्भवः: born from the cosmic egg

• जज्ञे: was born

• तु: indeed

• अकार-आख्यः: named/known as ‘A-kāra’

• चतुर्मुखः: four-faced (Brahmā)

• सः: he

• स्रष्टा: creator

• सर्व-लोकानाम्: of all worlds

• सः एव: he alone/indeed he

• त्रिविधः: threefold (as the triad of cosmic functions)

• प्रभुः: Lord, sovereign

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating the cosmogony within the Linga Purana framework)