ब्रह्मांडं संवृतं ह्येतत्कटाहेन समंततः । कपित्थस्य यथा बीजं कटाहेन सुसंवृतम्
brahmāṃḍaṃ saṃvṛtaṃ hyetatkaṭāhena samaṃtataḥ | kapitthasya yathā bījaṃ kaṭāhena susaṃvṛtam
ਇਹ ਬ੍ਰਹਮਾਂਡ-ਅੰਡਾ ਚੌਹਾਂ ਪਾਸਿਆਂ ਤੋਂ ਕਟਾਹ ਵਰਗੇ ਕਠੋਰ ਆਵਰਨ ਨਾਲ ਘਿਰਿਆ ਹੈ; ਜਿਵੇਂ ਕਪਿਤਥ (ਵੁੱਡ-ਐਪਲ) ਦਾ ਬੀਜ ਆਪਣੀ ਸਖ਼ਤ ਛਿਲਕੇ ਵਿੱਚ ਪੱਕੇ ਤੌਰ ਤੇ ਬੰਦ ਰਹਿੰਦਾ ਹੈ।
Lomaharṣaṇa (Sūta) to the sages
Listener: Pārtha (Arjuna)
Scene: A vast luminous brahmāṇḍa depicted as an egg-like sphere encased in a dark, cauldron-thick shell; beside it, a wood-apple (kapittha) cut open showing a tightly enclosed seed—visual analogy linking micro and macro.
The cosmos is depicted as a bounded, ordered system—an image that supports contemplation on the vastness yet finitude of manifested creation.
None; this is a cosmological analogy.
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