Shloka 28

अविद्या-पञ्चक, नवसर्ग-क्रमः, प्रजापति-प्रसवः

Vibhaga 1, Adhyaya 5

Devanagari script

अर्धनारीश्वरं दृष्ट्वा सर्गादौ कनकाण्डजः विभजस्वेति चाहादौ यदा जाता तदाभवत्

Transliteration

ardhanārīśvaraṃ dṛṣṭvā sargādau kanakāṇḍajaḥ vibhajasveti cāhādau yadā jātā tadābhavat

Translation

अर्धनारीश्वरं दृष्ट्वा सर्गादौ कनकाण्डजः । विभजस्वेति चाहादौ यदा जाता तदाभवत् ॥

Word by Word

• अर्धनारीश्वरम्: Ardhanārīśvara (Śiva united with Śakti as half-female)

• दृष्ट्वा: having seen

• सर्गादौ: at the beginning of creation

• कनकाण्डजः: the golden-egg-born (Brahmā, born from the Hiraṇyāṇḍa)

• विभजस्व: ‘divide (Yourself)!’

• इति: thus

• च: and

• आह: said

• आदौ: in the beginning

• यदा: when/at the moment when

• जाता: was born/manifested

• तदा: then

• अभवत्: it came to be/occurred

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating the early creation account; internal reference to Brahma’s act)