Shloka 28
Adhyaya 45 — Jaimini’s Cosmological Questions and the Opening of Markandeya’s Account of Primary Creation
ब्रह्माणमादिपुरुषमुत्पत्तिस्थितिसंयमे ।
यत्कारणमनौपम्यं यत्र सर्वं प्रतिष्ठितम् ॥
brahmāṇam ādi-puruṣam utpatti-sthiti-saṃyame |
yat-kāraṇam anaupamyaṃ yatra sarvaṃ pratiṣṭhitam ||
ब्रह्माणं आदिपुरुषं नमामि—सृष्टिस्थितिप्रलयेषु यस्य कारणशक्तिः प्रवर्तते—अद्वितीयं, यस्मिन् सर्वं प्रतिष्ठितम्॥
FAQs
The cosmos is portrayed as ordered and intelligible because it rests on a single grounding principle; ethically, this encourages responsibility and alignment with cosmic order (ṛta/dharma).
Sarga/Pratisarga: it identifies the causal basis for creation and dissolution, preparing for a systematic account of tattvas and emanation.
Creation–maintenance–withdrawal can be read as the three states of experience (arising, persisting, subsiding) within consciousness; the ‘ādi-puruṣa’ is the witnessing ground in which all states are established.