Shloka 20
Adhyaya 45 — Jaimini’s Cosmological Questions and the Opening of Markandeya’s Account of Primary Creation
मार्कण्डेय उवाच उत्पन्नमात्रस्य पुरा ब्रह्मणोऽव्यक्तजन्मनः ।
पुराणमेतद्वेदाश्च मुखेभ्योऽनुविनिः सृताः ॥
mārkaṇḍeya uvāca utpannamātrasya purā brahmaṇo ’vyaktajanmanaḥ | purāṇam etad vedāś ca mukhebhyo ’nuviniḥ sṛtāḥ ||
Mārkaṇḍeya nói: Thuở xưa, khi Phạm Thiên (Brahmā)—đấng có sự sinh khởi không hiển lộ—vừa mới xuất hiện, thì bộ Purāṇa này và các Veda đã tuôn chảy từ các miệng của Ngài.
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FAQs
Sacred knowledge is portrayed as primordial and impersonal: it ‘flows forth’ at the very dawn of creation. This supports the Purāṇic claim to antiquity and encourages reverence toward both śruti (Veda) and purāṇa as vehicles of dharma.
Sarga: it speaks to the earliest emergence of knowledge-forms at the beginning of creation, tied to Brahmā’s arising.
‘From the mouths’ suggests articulated vibration (śabda) as a creative principle: cosmos and canon are linked through sound—order is established by revealed speech.