Shloka 16

अलिङ्ग-लिङ्ग-निरूपणं तथा प्राकृत-सृष्टिवर्णनम्

Devanagari script

सिसृक्षया चोद्यमानः प्रविश्याव्यक्तमव्ययम् व्यक्तसृष्टिं विकुरुते चात्मनाधिष्ठितो महान्

Transliteration

sisṛkṣayā codyamānaḥ praviśyāvyaktamavyayam vyaktasṛṣṭiṃ vikurute cātmanādhiṣṭhito mahān

Translation

படைக்க விரும்பும் சங்கல்பத்தால் தூண்டப்பட்ட மகேஸ்வரன், அவ்யக்தமான அழிவற்ற தத்துவத்தில் பிரவேசிக்கிறார். தம் ஆத்மாவால் அந்தர்யாமியாக நிலைத்து, வெளிப்பட்ட படைப்பை விரிவாக்குகிறார்।

Word by Word

• सिसृक्षया: by the desire/will to create

• चोद्यमानः: being impelled/urged

• प्रविश्य: having entered

• अव्यक्तम्: the unmanifest (pradhāna/māyā in causal state)

• अव्ययम्: imperishable, undecaying

• व्यक्त-सृष्टिम्: the manifest creation

• विकुरुते: He transforms/fashions/causes to evolve

• च: and

• आत्मना: by His own Self, through His own being

• अधिष्ठितः: established as the presiding inner controller

• महान्: the Great One (Mahān—Shiva as Pati).

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating the cosmological teaching within the Linga Purana to the sages of Naimisharanya)