Markandeya Purana — Adhyaya 45, Shloka 46
Adhyaya 45 — Jaimini’s Cosmological Questions and the Opening of Markandeya’s Account of Primary Creation
तस्मिंस्तस्मिंस्तु तन्मात्रं तेन तन्मात्रता स्मृता ।
अविशेषवाचकत्वादविशेषास्ततः च ते ॥
tasmiṃstasmiṃstu tanmātraṃ tena tanmātratā smṛtā / aviśeṣavācakatvādaviśeṣāstataśca te
ਹਰ ਤੱਤ ਵਿੱਚ ਉਸ ਨਾਲ ਸੰਬੰਧਿਤ ਸੁਖਮ ਤੱਤ ਮੌਜੂਦ ਹੈ; ਇਸ ਲਈ ਇਸ ਨੂੰ ‘ਤਨਮਾਤ੍ਰਤਾ’ ਕਿਹਾ ਜਾਂਦਾ ਹੈ। ਅਤੇ ਕਿਉਂਕਿ ਇਹ ਅਵਿਸ਼ੇਸ਼ (ਅਵ੍ਯਕਤ) ਨੂੰ ਪ੍ਰਗਟ ਕਰਦੇ ਹਨ, ਇਸ ਕਰਕੇ ਉਹ ਤਨਮਾਤ੍ਰਾਂ ‘ਅਵਿਸ਼ੇਸ਼’ ਕਹੇ ਜਾਂਦੇ ਹਨ।
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FAQs
The verse clarifies that tanmātras are not gross, fully differentiated objects but subtle ‘mere’ potentials underlying sensory qualities. The takeaway is epistemic humility: what we grasp as definite forms rests on deeper, less differentiated strata.
Sarga: it provides the technical characterization of tanmātras used in the creation sequence.
Calling tanmātras ‘aviśeṣa’ points to a liminal zone between unmanifest and manifest—an intermediate subtlety where multiplicity is implied but not yet crystallized. Meditatively, it suggests tracing sensory experience back to its pre-conceptual seed.