Shloka 16

अलिङ्ग-लिङ्ग-निरूपणं तथा प्राकृत-सृष्टिवर्णनम्

Devanagari script

सिसृक्षया चोद्यमानः प्रविश्याव्यक्तमव्ययम् व्यक्तसृष्टिं विकुरुते चात्मनाधिष्ठितो महान्

Transliteration

sisṛkṣayā codyamānaḥ praviśyāvyaktamavyayam vyaktasṛṣṭiṃ vikurute cātmanādhiṣṭhito mahān

Translation

تخلیق کی خواہش سے مامور ہو کر مہیشور اَویَکت، اَوِناشی تَتّو میں داخل ہوتے ہیں۔ اپنے ہی آتما-سوروپ سے اَنتریامی حاکم بن کر وہ ظاہر سृष्टی کو پھیلاتے ہیں۔

Word by Word

• सिसृक्षया: by the desire/will to create

• चोद्यमानः: being impelled/urged

• प्रविश्य: having entered

• अव्यक्तम्: the unmanifest (pradhāna/māyā in causal state)

• अव्ययम्: imperishable, undecaying

• व्यक्त-सृष्टिम्: the manifest creation

• विकुरुते: He transforms/fashions/causes to evolve

• च: and

• आत्मना: by His own Self, through His own being

• अधिष्ठितः: established as the presiding inner controller

• महान्: the Great One (Mahān—Shiva as Pati).

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating the cosmological teaching within the Linga Purana to the sages of Naimisharanya)