Shloka 30

Brahmacarya-Upāya: Jñāna, Śauca, and the Mind’s Role in Desire (शान्ति पर्व, अध्याय २०७)

Devanagari script

प्रध्याय सो5सृजन्मेघांस्तथा स्थावरजड्मान्‌ | पृथिवीं सो$सृजद्‌ विश्वां सहितां भूरितेजसा

Transliteration

pradhyāya so 'sṛjan meghāṁs tathā sthāvara-jaṅgamān | pṛthivīṁ so 'sṛjad viśvāṁ sahitāṁ bhūri-tejasā ||

Translation

毗湿摩说道：凭借自身心意的决断，他生起云雨，又生起不动与能动诸类众生；继而创造了整个大地——具足一切万有——并赋予其丰盛而庄严的光辉。

Word by Word

• प्रध्यायः: the Creator/Ordainer (Pradhyāya)
• प्रध्यायः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: प्रध्याय
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• सः: he
• सः: Karta
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: तद्
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• असृजत्: created, produced
• Type: Verb
• Root: सृज्
• Form: Imperfect (Laṅ), 3, Singular, Parasmaipada

• मेघान्: clouds
• मेघान्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: मेघ
• Form: Masculine, Accusative, Plural

• तथा: and also; likewise
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: तथा

• स्थावर-जङ्गमान्: immobile and mobile beings
• स्थावर-जङ्गमान्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: स्थावर-जङ्गम
• Form: Masculine, Accusative, Plural

• पृथिवीम्: the earth
• पृथिवीम्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: पृथिवी
• Form: Feminine, Accusative, Singular

• सः: he
• सः: Karta
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: तद्
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• असृजत्: created, produced
• Type: Verb
• Root: सृज्
• Form: Imperfect (Laṅ), 3, Singular, Parasmaipada

• विश्वाम्: entire, all
• Type: Adjective
• Root: विश्व
• Form: Feminine, Accusative, Singular

• सहिताम्: accompanied (with), together with
• Type: Adjective
• Root: सहित
• Form: Feminine, Accusative, Singular

• भूरि-तेजसा: with great splendor/energy
• भूरि-तेजसा: Karana
• Type: Noun
• Root: भूरि-तेजस्
• Form: Neuter, Instrumental, Singular

Speaker

भीष्म उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Bhīṣma
• meghāḥ (clouds)
• sthāvara-jaṅgamāḥ (immobile and mobile beings)
• pṛthivī (earth)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

Creation is presented as a purposeful, orderly act arising from conscious resolve, implying an underlying unity and intelligible order behind the world’s diversity—an idea that supports dharma as alignment with that order.

What is happening in the narrative?

Bhishma describes the origin of the world: the creator, through mental intention, produces clouds, all categories of living beings (immobile and mobile), and the complete earth endowed with great radiance.