Kurma Purana — Purva Bhaga, Shloka 65
Nine Creations (Sarga), Guṇa-Streams of Beings, and Brahmā’s Progeny in Cyclic Time
आर्षाणि चैव नामानि याश्च वेदेषु दृष्टयः / शर्वर्यन्ते प्रसूतानां तान्येवैभ्यो ददात्यजः
ārṣāṇi caiva nāmāni yāśca vedeṣu dṛṣṭayaḥ / śarvaryante prasūtānāṃ tānyevaibhyo dadātyajaḥ
اور وہ نام جو رِشیوں سے مُثبت ہیں اور ویدوں میں بھی پائے جاتے ہیں، اولاد کی پیدائش کے بعد مناسب وقت پر اَج (ازلی، اَجنما) پروردگار وہی نام انہیں عطا کرتا ہے۔
Sūta (narrator) recounting the divine ordinance within the Kurma Purana’s creation/lineage discourse
Primary Rasa: shanta
Secondary Rasa: adbhuta
FAQs
By calling the giver of names “Aja” (the Unborn), the verse points to a supreme principle beyond birth and change, from whom social and sacred order (including Vedic naming) proceeds.
No direct yogic technique is taught in this verse; it supports the dharmic framework (saṃskāra and Vedic authority) that the Kurma Purana treats as the ethical ground for higher disciplines like Pāśupata-oriented devotion and yoga.
Indirectly: it emphasizes one supreme, unborn divine authority behind Vedic dharma—consistent with the Kurma Purana’s harmonizing approach where sectarian forms are integrated under a single transcendent source.