Cosmogony and the Ninefold Creation: Rudra’s Origin and the Prelude to the Sāvitrī-Veda Narrative
पुनरन्यदभूत् तस्य ध्यायतः सर्गमुत्तमम्। तिर्यक्स्रोतस्तु वै यस्मात् तिर्यक्स्रोतस्तु वै स्मृतः॥ २.२८ ॥
punar anyad abhūt tasya dhyāyataḥ sargam uttamam | tiryaksrotas tu vai yasmāt tiryaksrotas tu vai smṛtaḥ || 2.28 ||
Pagkaraan, habang siya’y nagmumuni-muni sa dakilang gawa ng paglikha, may isa pang uri ng nilalang ang sumibol. Sapagkat ang agos (srotas) nito ay pahalang, kaya ito’y inaalala bilang ‘tiryak-srotas’, ang kaayusang pahalang ang daloy.
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It reflects a Purāṇic method of classifying living beings through typologies of creation (sarga), preserving older cosmological and philosophical vocabularies used across Sanskrit literature.
No specific geographic site is named in this verse; the content is cosmological and taxonomic rather than topographical.
The verse primarily provides a classificatory description rather than an explicit ethical injunction; its philosophical instruction is the ordered intelligibility of creation through traditional categories.
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