Matsya Purana — Questions on Padmanabha’s Lotus-Creation in the Padma Mahakalpa; Prelude to N..., Shloka 26

Devanagari script

यजामहे तमेवाद्यं तमेवेच्छाम निर्वृताः यो वक्ता यच्च वक्तव्यं यच्चाहं तद्ब्रवीमि वः //

Transliteration

yajāmahe tamevādyaṃ tamevecchāma nirvṛtāḥ yo vaktā yacca vaktavyaṃ yaccāhaṃ tadbravīmi vaḥ //

Translation

เราบูชาพระองค์ผู้เป็นปฐมกาลนั้นเท่านั้น; เมื่อแสวงหาพระองค์เพียงผู้เดียว เราจึงได้ความสงบ พระองค์ทรงเป็นทั้งผู้กล่าวและสิ่งที่พึงกล่าว และสิ่งใดที่เรากล่าว เราขอประกาศแก่ท่านทั้งหลายว่าเป็นสัจจะนั้นเอง

Word by Word

• यजामहे: we worship

• तम् एव: Him alone

• आद्यम्: the primordial/first

• तम् एव इच्छाम: we desire/seek Him alone

• निर्वृताः: contented, at peace

• यः: who

• वक्ता: the speaker/teacher

• यत् च: and that which

• वक्तव्यम्: is to be spoken/that which should be taught

• यत् च अहम्: and whatever I

• तत्: that

• ब्रवीमि: speak, declare

• वः: to you (all).

Speaker

• Primary narrator/teacher voice within the Matsya Purana’s discourse tradition (likely Sūta or the instructing sage presenting the teaching as divinely grounded)

Entities Mentioned

• The Primordial One (Ādya—commonly understood as Viṣṇu/Nārāyaṇa in Purāṇic usage)

Tags

• Stuti
• Authority of scripture
• Devotional theology
• Purana discourse
• Dharma teaching preface

FAQs

What does this verse reveal about the creation or dissolution (Pralaya)?

Indirectly, it frames the Primordial Lord as the ultimate ground of all teaching and reality—an idea used in Purāṇas to anchor accounts of creation and pralaya in a single supreme source.

How does this verse relate to the duties of a King or Householder?

It establishes that ethical instruction (dharma) is not merely human opinion: the teacher presents guidance as rooted in the supreme principle, encouraging rulers and householders to treat dharma as authoritative and spiritually oriented.

What is the architectural or ritual significance mentioned here?

Ritually, it functions like a stuti/invocation that sanctifies subsequent instruction; in Vāstu or temple-rule sections, such invocatory grounding signals that technical prescriptions are to be applied as sacred, not merely practical.