Shloka 196

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

Devanagari script

तस्मात्सनत्कुमारेति नामास्येह प्रतिष्ठितम् ततो ऽभिध्यायतस्तस्य जज्ञिरे मानसाः प्रजाः

Transliteration

tasmātsanatkumāreti nāmāsyeha pratiṣṭhitam tato 'bhidhyāyatastasya jajñire mānasāḥ prajāḥ

Translation

तस्मादिहास्य नाम ‘सनत्कुमार’ इति प्रतिष्ठितम्। ततः स अभिध्यायमानः सन् तस्मादेव मानसाः प्रजाः समजायन्त॥

Word by Word

• tasmāt: therefore/from that cause

• sanat-kumāra-iti: as (named) Sanatkumāra

• nāma: name

• asya: of him

• iha: here/in this world

• pratiṣṭhitam: became established/was firmly set

• tataḥ: then/thereafter

• abhidhyāyataḥ: of him who was meditating/intently contemplating

• tasya: of him

• jajñire: were born/arose

• mānasāḥ: mind-born/mental

• prajāḥ: creatures/offspring/progeny

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating the creation account, reflecting Brahma’s manasa-sarga tradition)