Shloka 73

एकार्णव-सृष्टिक्रमः, ब्रह्म-विष्णु-परस्परप्रवेशः, शिवस्य आगमनं च

Devanagari script

एष बीजी भवान्बीजम् अहं योनिः सनातनः स एवमुक्तो विश्वात्मा ब्रह्मा विष्णुमपृच्छत

Transliteration

eṣa bījī bhavānbījam ahaṃ yoniḥ sanātanaḥ sa evamukto viśvātmā brahmā viṣṇumapṛcchata

Translation

“彼为持种者；汝为其种；我为永恒之胎藏。”如是言毕，梵天——宇宙之我——又进一步询问毗湿奴。

Word by Word

• eṣaḥ: this (One, i.e., the supreme principle)

• bījī: the bearer of seed, source of potency

• bhavān: you

• bījam: the seed, causal principle

• aham: I

• yoniḥ: womb, matrix, generative ground

• sanātanaḥ: eternal

• saḥ: he (Brahmā)

• evam: thus

• uktaḥ: having been spoken to/addressed

• viśvātmā: the soul/self of the universe, cosmic self

• brahmā: Brahmā

• viṣṇum: Viṣṇu

• apṛcchata: asked, inquired

Speaker

Suta (narrating an internal dialogue in which Brahma speaks and then questions Vishnu)