Shloka 18
Adhyaya 48 — The Emanation of Beings from Brahma: Night, Day, Twilight, and the Orders of Creation
चत्वार्येतान्यथोत्पाद्य तनुमन्यां प्रजापतिः ।
रजस्तमोमयीं रात्रौ जगृहे क्षुत्तृडन्वितः ॥
catvāry etāny athotpādya tanum anyāṃ prajāpatiḥ / rajas-tamo-mayīṃ rātrau jagṛhe kṣut-tṛḍ-anvitaḥ
एतानि चत्वारि सृष्ट्वा प्रजापतिः पुनर्निशि रजस्तमोमयं शरीरान्तरं जग्राह, क्षुत्पिपासासमन्वितम्।
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FAQs
Hunger and thirst are framed as guṇa-conditioned forces, not merely biological facts; dharma involves governing them (restraint, right timing, right means) rather than being governed by them.
Sarga: further emanation/assumption of forms leading toward categories of beings and impulses.
Rajas-tamas with kṣut-tṛḍ points to desire-driven restlessness and obscuration; in yogic terms, it signals the arising of vāsanā-like pressures when sattva is low.