Shloka 12
Adhyaya 48 — The Emanation of Beings from Brahma: Night, Day, Twilight, and the Orders of Creation
सृष्ट्वा मनुष्याञ् स विभुरुत्ससर्ज तनुं ततः ।
ज्योत्स्ना समभवत् सा च नक्तान्तेऽहर्मुखे च या ॥
sṛṣṭvā manuṣyān sa vibhur utsasarja tanuṃ tataḥ / jyotsnā samabhavat sā ca naktānte 'harmukhe ca yā
मनुष्याञ् सृष्ट्वा स सर्वव्यापी प्रभुः पश्चात् देहं त्यक्तवान्। तस्माद् देहात् ज्योत्स्ना समुत्पन्ना, या निशान्ते दिवाप्रारम्भे च प्रकाशते॥
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FAQs
Temporal order (night’s end, day’s beginning) is presented as a structured emanation from the Creator—suggesting that time, rhythm, and auspicious transitions (like dawn) are not accidental but woven into dharmic cosmology.
Primarily Sarga (primary creation): the generation of cosmic principles/phenomena such as jyotsnā and the ordering of day-night transitions.
Jyotsnā symbolically mediates between opposites (night/day), hinting at a sattvic ‘bridge’ state—an image for liminality where clarity arises as tamas recedes.