Shloka 2
Adhyaya 48 — The Emanation of Beings from Brahma: Night, Day, Twilight, and the Orders of Creation
मार्कण्डेय उवाच
कुशलाकुशलैर्ब्रह्मन् भाविता पूर्वकर्मभिः ।
ख्याता तथा ह्यनिर्मुक्ताः प्रलये ह्युपसंहृताः ॥
mārkaṇḍeya uvāca
kuśalākuśalair brahman bhāvitā pūrvakarmabhiḥ |
khyātā tathā hy anirmuktāḥ pralaye hy upasaṃhṛtāḥ ||
मार्कण्डेय उवाच—हे ब्राह्मण, प्राणिनः पूर्वकर्मभिः शुभाशुभैः संस्कार्यन्ते; तेनैव ते तथा प्रसिद्धा भवन्ति। तस्मात् संस्कारबन्धात् न विमुच्यन्ते, प्रलयकाले च नूनं तत्रैव लीयन्ते।
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FAQs
The verse asserts moral causality: beings’ states and identities are conditioned by prior wholesome and unwholesome actions. Until liberation, karmic imprint persists across cycles, and in pralaya all manifested forms are withdrawn.
Primarily Sarga/Pratisarga framing with explicit mention of Pralaya (dissolution). It sets the karmic logic that underlies subsequent accounts of creation and re-creation.
The ‘known as such’ (khyātā) suggests that guṇa-karmic tendencies crystallize into recognizable ontological categories. Dissolution is not annihilation but reabsorption of names-and-forms into the causal ground.