Shloka 53

Adhyaya 70: आदिसर्गः—महत्-अहङ्कार-तन्मात्रा-भूतसृष्टिः, ब्रह्माण्डावरणम्, प्रजासर्गः, त्रिमूर्ति-शैवाधिष्ठानम्

Devanagari script

एककालसमुत्पन्नं जलबुद्बुदवच्च तत् विशेषेभ्यो ऽण्डम् अभवन् महत् तद् उदकेशयम्

Transliteration

ekakālasamutpannaṃ jalabudbudavacca tat viśeṣebhyo 'ṇḍam abhavan mahat tad udakeśayam

Translation

ਉਹ ਇਕੋ ਵੇਲੇ ਉਤਪੰਨ ਹੋਇਆ—ਜਲ ਦੇ ਬੁਲਬੁਲੇ ਵਾਂਗ। ਵਿਸ਼ੇਸ਼ ਤੱਤਾਂ ਤੋਂ ਉਹ ਮਹਾਨ ਅੰਡ ਪ੍ਰਗਟ ਹੋਇਆ, ਜੋ ਆਦਿ ਜਲ ਵਿੱਚ ਸ਼ਯਨ ਕਰ ਰਿਹਾ ਸੀ।

Word by Word

• एककालसमुत्पन्नम्: arisen at one time/all at once

• जलबुद्बुदवत्: like a water-bubble

• तत्: that (manifestation)

• विशेषेभ्यः: from the specific/differentiated principles (viśeṣa-tattvas)

• अण्डम्: the cosmic egg (brahmāṇḍa/hiraṇyagarbha)

• अभवत्: came into being

• महत्: great, vast

• तत्: that

• उदकेशयम्: lying/resting in the waters

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating the cosmogenesis account to the sages of Naimisharanya)