Shloka 71
Adhyaya 45 — Jaimini’s Cosmological Questions and the Opening of Markandeya’s Account of Primary Creation
ब्रह्माख्यः कथितो यस्ते समासात् श्रूयतां पुनः ।
यथा मग्नो जले कश्चिदुन्मज्जन् जलसम्भवः ॥
brahmākhyaḥ kathito yas te samāsāt śrūyatāṃ punaḥ | yathā magno jale kaścid unmajjann jalasambhavaḥ
‘பிரம்மா’ என்று அழைக்கப்படுவது உங்களுக்கு சுருக்கமாகச் சொல்லப்பட்டது; இப்போது மீண்டும் (விரிவாக) கேளுங்கள். நீரில் மூழ்கியவன் மேலே எழுவது போல, நீரிலிருந்து பிறந்ததுபோல்—
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FAQs
Teaching proceeds from summary to detail; the analogy makes metaphysics accessible—scripture often uses familiar experience to point to subtle origins.
Sarga: specifically brahmā-utpatti (the arising of Brahmā) within primary creation.
Emergence from water echoes the motif of consciousness ‘rising’ from undifferentiated causal states; it also evokes the lotus/waters imagery common to Brahmā’s cosmogenesis.