Shloka 37
Adhyaya 49 — Primordial Human Creation, the Rise of Desire, and the Origins of Settlements, Measures, and Agriculture
परमाणुः परं सूक्ष्मं त्रसरेणुर्महीरजः ।
बालाग्रञ्चैव लिक्षां च यूकां चाथ यवोदरम् ॥
paramāṇuḥ paraṃ sūkṣmaṃ trasareṇur mahīrajaḥ | bālāgraṃ caiva likṣāṃ ca yūkāṃ cātha yavodaram ||
परमाणुः सूक्ष्मतमो मानः। ततोऽनुक्रमेण त्रसरेणुः, भूमिरजः, केशाग्रं, लिक्षा, यूका, ततः ‘यवोदर’ इति यवमात्रा परिगण्यते।
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FAQs
The verse foregrounds a graded order from the subtlest to the more graspable, reinforcing a Purāṇic habit of making the cosmos intelligible through measured hierarchies—useful for ritual, architecture, and governance.
Indirectly supports Sarga (ordered description of the world) by supplying standardized measures used in describing space, settlement, and extent; it is not a direct genealogy/manvantara episode.
From ‘atom’ to visible measures, it symbolizes the continuum from subtle reality (sūkṣma) to gross manifestation (sthūla), a recurring Purāṇic teaching about layered perception.