Markandeya Purana — Adhyaya 45, Shloka 59
Adhyaya 45 — Jaimini’s Cosmological Questions and the Opening of Markandeya’s Account of Primary Creation
गुणं पूर्वस्य पूर्वस्य प्राप्नुवन्त्युत्तरॊत्तरम् ।
नानावीऱ्याः पृथग्भूताḥ सप्तैते संहतिं विना ॥
guṇaṃ pūrvasya pūrvasya prāpnuvantyuttarottaram / nānāvīryāḥ pṛthagbhūtāḥ saptaite saṃhatiṃ vinā
每一后起者皆获得每一先起者之德性。这七者具种种力而各自分立，因未相和合（故不能成就创造之功）。
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FAQs
Power in isolation does not yield a living world; integration is required. On the human plane, capacities (knowledge, effort, resources) bear fruit only when harmonized.
Sarga: it describes the mechanics of primary creation—how successive evolutes inherit prior attributes and why mere plurality without conjunction cannot generate beings.
The ‘seven’ can be contemplated as fundamental building blocks that must be unified under a higher organizing principle; spiritually, scattered faculties must be gathered (saṃhati) for realization.