Shloka 15
Adhyaya 45 — Jaimini’s Cosmological Questions and the Opening of Markandeya’s Account of Primary Creation
पक्षिण ऊचुः प्रश्नभारोऽयमतुलो यस्त्वया मुनिसत्तम ।
पृष्टस्तं ते प्रवक्ष्यामस्तत् शृणुष्वेह जैमिने ॥
pakṣiṇa ūcuḥ praśnabhāro ’yamatulo yastvayā munisattama | pṛṣṭas taṃ te pravakṣyāmas tat śṛṇuṣveha jaimine ||
పక్షులు పలికినవి—హే మునిశ్రేష్ఠా, మీరు అడిగిన ప్రశ్న యొక్క భారము అపూర్వము. మేము దానిని మీకు వివరించెదము; హే జైమినీ, ఇక్కడ వినుము.
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FAQs
Serious inquiry (praśna) is treated as a weighty sacrificial act: the respondent must answer responsibly, and the listener must practice attentive hearing (śravaṇa). The verse establishes humility and readiness before transmitting doctrine.
Indirectly preparatory: it frames the forthcoming teaching that will include sarga/pratisarga (creation accounts) and vaṃśa/vaṃśānucarita (lineages), but this verse itself functions as upodghāta (introduction) rather than a pañcalakṣaṇa item.
The ‘birds’ symbolize dharma-informed discrimination (viveka) speaking from an elevated vantage: knowledge can arise from unexpected vessels when aligned with truth and tapas.