Shloka 19
Adhyaya 45 — Jaimini’s Cosmological Questions and the Opening of Markandeya’s Account of Primary Creation
प्रणिपत्य जगन्नाथं पद्मयोनिं पितामहम् ।
जगद्योनिं स्थितं सृष्टौ स्थितौ विष्णुस्वरूपिणम् ।
प्रलये चान्तकर्तारं रौद्रं रुद्रस्वरूपिणम् ॥
praṇipatya jagannāthaṃ padmayoniṃ pitāmaham | jagadyoniṃ sthitaṃ sṛṣṭau sthitau viṣṇusvarūpiṇam | pralaye cāntakartāraṃ raudraṃ rudrasvarūpiṇam ||
जगदीश्वरं प्रणम्य—पितामहं पद्मयोनिं जगद्गर्भं; सृष्टौ ब्रह्मरूपेण स्थितं, पालनकाले विष्णुरूपिणं, प्रलये रुद्ररूपं घोरान्तकं।
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FAQs
Before speaking on origins, the narrator aligns speech with reverence: knowledge is framed as sacred and accountable to the cosmic order. The verse also teaches functional unity—creation, sustenance, and dissolution are coordinated aspects of one Lord’s governance.
It prefaces sarga/pratisarga discussions by naming the divine agencies associated with cosmic cycles (creation-maintenance-dissolution), setting the doctrinal stage for sarga (primary creation).
The triadic mapping (Brahmā–Viṣṇu–Rudra) encodes the rhythm of manifestation: emergence, coherence, and reabsorption. The ‘one Lord’ behind forms suggests a non-sectarian metaphysics where names denote functions, not competing absolutes.