Mahābhārata · Adhyāya 12.181
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12.181.1
मेरुमध्ये स्थितो ब्रह्मा कथं स ससृजे प्रजाः ।
एतन्मे सर्वमाचक्ष्व याथातथ्येन पृच्छतः ॥ १२.१८१.१ ॥
How did Brahmā, standing in the middle of Meru, create the creatures? Tell me all of this truly, as I ask.
12.181.2
प्रजाविसर्गं पूर्वं स मानसो मनसाऽसृजत् ।
संरक्षणार्थं भूतानां सृष्टं प्रथमतो जलम् ॥ १२.१८१.२ ॥
Formerly, that mind-born Brahmā created the emission of creatures by mind. For the protection of beings, water was created first.
12.181.3
यत्प्राणः सर्वभूतानां वर्धन्ते येन च प्रजाः ।
परित्यक्ताश्च नश्यन्ति तेनेदं सर्वमावृतम् ॥ १२.१८१.३ ॥
That which is the life-breath of all beings, by which creatures grow, and when abandoned they perish — by that this whole world is enveloped.
12.181.4
पृथिवी पर्वता मेघा मूर्तिमन्तश्च ये परे ।
सर्वं तद्वारुणं ज्ञेयमापस्तस्तम्भिरे हि ताः ॥ १२.१८१.४ ॥
Earth, mountains, clouds, and whatever other embodied things there are — all of that should be known as belonging to Varuṇa, for it was those waters that held them firm.
12.181.5
कथं सलिलमुत्पन्नं कथं चैवाग्निमारुतौ ।
कथं वा मेदिनी सृष्टेत्यत्र मे संशयो महान् ॥ १२.१८१.५ ॥
How did water arise, and how fire and wind, or how was the earth created? About this I have a great doubt.
12.181.6
ब्रह्मकल्पे पुरा ब्रह्मन्ब्रह्मर्षीणां समागमे ।
लोकसंभवसन्देहः समुत्पन्नो महात्मनाम् ॥ १२.१८१.६ ॥
Long ago, in the Brahmā-age, O Brahmin, at a gathering of the Brahmin sages, doubt about the origin of the worlds arose among the great-souled ones.
12.181.7
तेऽतिष्ठन्ध्यानमालम्ब्य मौनमास्थाय निश्चलाः ।
त्यक्ताहाराः पवनपा दिव्यं वर्षशतं द्विजाः ॥ १२.१८१.७ ॥
Having taken up meditation and adopted silence, they stood motionless; having abandoned food and drinking only wind, those twice-born ones stood for a divine hundred years.
12.181.8
तेषां ब्रह्ममयी वाणी सर्वेषां श्रोत्रमागमत् ।
दिव्या सरस्वती तत्र संबभूव नभस्तलात् ॥ १२.१८१.८ ॥
Their voice, made of Brahman, reached the ears of all; and there, from the vault of the sky, the divine Sarasvatī appeared.
12.181.9
पुराऽस्तमितनिःशब्दमाकाशमचलोपमम् ।
नष्टचन्द्रार्कपवनं प्रसुप्तमिव संबभौ ॥ १२.१८१.९ ॥
Formerly the sky, silent as if it had set, stood immovable like a mountain; with moon, sun and wind gone, it appeared as if asleep.
12.181.10
ततः सलिलमुत्पन्नं तमसीवापरं तमः ।
तस्माच्च सलिलोत्पीडात्समजायत मारुतः ॥ १२.१८१.१० ॥
Then water arose, like another darkness within darkness; and from the pressure of that water was born the wind.
12.181.11
यथा भाजनमच्छिद्रं निःशब्दमिह लक्ष्यते ।
तच्चाम्भसा पूर्यमाणं सशब्दं कुरुतेऽनिलः ॥ १२.१८१.११ ॥
As a vessel without a hole is seen here as soundless, yet when it is filled with water, the wind makes it resound.
12.181.12
तथा सलिलसंरुद्धे नभसोन्ते निरन्तरे ।
भित्त्वाऽर्णवतलं वायुः समुत्पतति घोषवान् ॥ १२.१८१.१२ ॥
So too, in the sky enclosed by water, endless and unbroken, the wind splits the floor of the ocean and rises up roaring.
12.181.13
स एष चरते वायुरर्णवोत्पीडसंभवः ।
आकाशस्थानमासाद्य प्रशान्तिं नाधिगच्छति ॥ १२.१८१.१३ ॥
This wind, born of the ocean's pressure, wanders on; having found its place in the sky, it does not attain calm.
12.181.14
तस्मिन्वाय्वम्बुसंघर्षे दीप्ततेजा महाबलः ।
प्रादुर्बभूवोर्ध्वशिखः कृत्वा निस्तिमिरं नभः ॥ १२.१८१.१४ ॥
In that clash of wind and water there appeared the mighty one of blazing splendour, with flames rising upward, which made the sky free of darkness.
12.181.15
अग्निः पवनसंयुक्तः स्वात्समुत्क्षिपते जलम् ।
सोऽग्निमारुतसंयोगाद्धनत्वमुपपद्यते ॥ १२.१८१.१५ ॥
Fire, joined with wind, lifts the water up by its own nature; through the union of fire and wind it comes to have solidity.
12.181.16
तस्याकाशान्निपतितः स्नेहस्तिष्ठति योऽपरः ।
स संघातत्वमापन्नो भूमित्वमनुगच्छति ॥ १२.१८१.१६ ॥
That moisture which, having fallen from the sky, remains — that is another. Having become compact, it comes to the state of earth.
12.181.17
रसानां सर्वगन्धानां स्नेहानां प्राणिनां तथा ।
भूमिर्योनिरिह ज्ञेया यस्यां सर्वं प्रसूयते ॥ १२.१८१.१७ ॥
Of flavours, of all odours, of moistures and of living beings, likewise, earth is to be known here as the womb, from which everything is produced.