Shloka 16

अलिङ्ग-लिङ्ग-निरूपणं तथा प्राकृत-सृष्टिवर्णनम्

Devanagari script

सिसृक्षया चोद्यमानः प्रविश्याव्यक्तमव्ययम् व्यक्तसृष्टिं विकुरुते चात्मनाधिष्ठितो महान्

Transliteration

sisṛkṣayā codyamānaḥ praviśyāvyaktamavyayam vyaktasṛṣṭiṃ vikurute cātmanādhiṣṭhito mahān

Translation

सिसृक्षया चोद्यमानः प्रविश्याव्यक्तमव्ययम्। व्यक्तसृष्टिं विकुरुते चात्मनाधिष्ठितो महान्॥

Word by Word

• सिसृक्षया: by the desire/will to create

• चोद्यमानः: being impelled/urged

• प्रविश्य: having entered

• अव्यक्तम्: the unmanifest (pradhāna/māyā in causal state)

• अव्ययम्: imperishable, undecaying

• व्यक्त-सृष्टिम्: the manifest creation

• विकुरुते: He transforms/fashions/causes to evolve

• च: and

• आत्मना: by His own Self, through His own being

• अधिष्ठितः: established as the presiding inner controller

• महान्: the Great One (Mahān—Shiva as Pati).

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating the cosmological teaching within the Linga Purana to the sages of Naimisharanya)