pari-kulkarni/itihasa-sanskrit-en-filtered huggingface dataset:
Sanskrit: भीष्म उवाच शृणु मे त्वमिदं सूक्ष्म सांख्यानां विदितात्मनाम्। विहितं यतिभिः सर्वैः कपिलादिभिरीश्वरैः॥
English: Bhishma said Hear now what the subtile principles are of the followers of the Sankhya doctrine all of whom have a clear knowledge of the soul. Those principles have been laid down by all the great and powerful Yatis having Kapila for their first.
Sanskrit: यस्मिन् न विभ्रमाः केचिद् दृश्यन्ते मनुजर्षभ। गुणाश्च यस्मिन् बहवो दोषहानिश्च केवला॥
English: In that doctrine, O king no errors are seen. Its merits are manifold. In fact, there is no fault in it.
Sanskrit: रूपेण दृष्टिं संयुक्तां घ्राणं गन्धगुणेन च। शब्दे सक्तं तथा श्रोत्रं जिह्वा रसगुणेषु च॥ तनुं स्पर्श तथा सक्तां वायु नभसि चाश्रितम्। मोहं तमसि संयुक्त लोभमर्थेषु संश्रितम्॥
English: Vision is attached to form; the sense of scent to smells; the ear to sound; the tongue to juices; and the skin to touch. The Wind has for its refuge Ether. Stupefaction has Darkness for its refuge. Cupidity has the objects of the senses for its refuge.
Sanskrit: विष्णुं क्रान्ते बले शर्क कोष्ठे सक्तं तथानलम्। अप्सु देवीं समासक्तामपस्तेजसि संश्रिताः॥
English: Vishnu is attached to (the organs of) motion. Indra is attached to (the organs of) strength. The god of fire is attached to the stomach. Earth is attached to the Waters. The Waters have fire for their refuge.
Sanskrit: तेजो वायौ तु संसक्तं वायुं नभसि चाश्रितम्। नभो महति संयुक्तं महद् बुद्धौ च संश्रितम्॥
English: Heat attaches itself to the Wind; and the Wind has Ether for its refuge; and Space has the principle of greatness for its refuge; and the principle of greatness has Understanding for its basis.
Sanskrit: बुद्धिं तमसि सक्तां तमो रजसि संश्रितम्। रजः सत्त्वे तथा सक्तं सत्त्वं सक्तं तथाऽऽत्मनि॥
English: The Understanding has its refuge in Darkness; Darkness has Ignorance for its refuge; Rajas is founded upon the quality of goodness and quality of Goodness is attached to the Soul.
Sanskrit: सक्तमात्मानमीशे च देवे नारायणे तथा। देवं मोक्षे च संसक्तं मोक्षं सक्तं तु न क्वचित्॥
English: The Soul has the glorious and powerful goodness Narayana for its refuge. That glorious god has Liberation for his refuge. Liberation is independent of all refuge.
Sanskrit: युधिष्ठिर उवाच कान् स्वगात्रोद्भवान् दोषान् पश्यस्यमितविक्रम्। एतन्मे संशयं कृत्स्नं वक्तुमर्हसि तत्त्वतः॥
English: Yudhishthira said O you of immeasurable energy, what are those faults which you see in one's body? You should explain this doubt to me fully and truly.
Sanskrit: भीष्म उवाच पञ्च दोषान् प्रभो देहे प्रवदन्ति मनीषिणः। मार्गज्ञाः कापिलाः सांख्याः शृणु तानरिसूदन॥
English: Bhishma said Listen, O killer of enemies, the Sankhyas or followers of Kapila, who are conversant with all paths and gifted with wisdom, say that there are in all five faults, O powerful one, in the human, body.
Sanskrit: कामक्रोधौ भयं निद्रा पञ्चमः श्वास उच्यते। एते दोषाः शरीरेषु दृश्यन्ते सर्वदेहिनाम्॥ छिन्दन्ति क्षमया क्रोधं कामं संकल्पवर्जनात्।
English: They are Desire, Anger, Fear, Sleep and Breath. These faults are seen in the bodies of all embodied creatures. They who are gifted with wisdom cut the root of anger with the help of Forgiveness. Desire is cut off by renouncing all purposes.
Sanskrit: सत्त्वसंसेवनान्निद्रामप्रमादाद् भयं तथा। छिन्दन्ति पञ्चमं श्वासमल्पाहारतया नृप॥
English: By cultivation of the quality of Goodness (Sattva) sleep is conquered and Fear in conquered by cultivating carefulness. Breath is conquered by restriction of diet, О king.
Sanskrit: तत्र तान् सुकृतीन् सांख्यान् सूर्यो वहति रश्मिभिः। पद्मतन्तुवदाविश्य प्रवहन विषयान् नृप॥
English: The Sun-god then bears, with his rays, those pious men who prastise the Sankhya doctrines. Like the fibres of the lotus-stalk carrying water to the flower into which they all converge, the Sun-God, drinking all things from the universe, conveys them to those good and wise men.
Sanskrit: तत्र तान् प्रवहो वायुः प्रतिगृह्णाति भारत। वीतरागान् यतीन् सिद्धान् वीर्ययुक्तांस्तपोधनान्॥ सूक्ष्मः शीतः सुगन्धी च सुखस्पर्शश्च भारत। सप्तानां मरुतां श्रेष्ठो लोकान् गच्छति यः शुभान्। स तान् वहति कौन्तेय नभसः परमां गतिम्॥ नभो वहति लोकेश रजसः परमां गतिम्। रजो वहति राजेन्द्र सत्त्वस्य परमां गतिम्॥
English: Their attachments all dissipated, possesed of energy, endued with wealth of penances, and crowned with success, these Yatis, O Bharata, are carried by that wind, which is subtile, cooling, fragrant, and sweet to the touch, O Bharata! In fact, that wind which is the best of seven winds, and which blows in regions of great happiness, conveys them, O son of Kunti, to that which is the highest and in ether. Then ether into which they are carried, O king, conveys them to the highest and of Darkness.
Sanskrit: सत्त्वं वहति शुद्धात्मन् परं नारायण प्रभुम्। प्रभुर्वहति शुद्धात्मा परमात्मानमात्मना॥
English: Darkness then carries them to the highest end of Goodness. Goodness then bears them,O you of pure soul, to the Supreme and powerful Narayana.
Sanskrit: परमात्मानमासाद्य तद्भूतायतनामलाः। अमृतत्वाय कल्पन्ते न निवर्तन्ति वा विभो॥ परमा सा गतिः पार्थ निर्द्वन्द्वानां महात्मनाम्। सत्यार्जवरतानां वै सर्वभूतदयावताम्॥
English: The powerful and pure-souled Narayana at last through himself, carries them to the Supreme Soul, those pure persons, who have become the body of Brahman, attain to immortality, and they have never afterwards to come back from that position, O King! That is the highest end, O son of Pritha, which is acquired by those great men who have got over the influence of all pairs of opposites.
Sanskrit: युधिष्ठिर उवाच स्थानमुत्तममासाद्य भगवन्तं स्थिरव्रताः। आजन्ममरणं वा ते स्मरन्त्युत न वानघ॥
English: Yudhishthira said O pure one, have those persons of firm Vows, after they have acquired that excellent position which is fraught with power and happiness, and recollection of their lives including birth and death?
Sanskrit: यदत्र तथ्यं तन्मे त्वं यथावद् वक्तुमर्हसि। त्वदृते पुरुषं नान्यं प्रष्टुमर्हामि कौरव॥
English: You should tell me properly what the truth is in this respect. O you of Kuru's race, I do not think it proper to ask any one else but you,
Sanskrit: मोक्षे दोषो महानेष प्राप्य सिद्धिं गतानृषीन्। यदि तत्रैव विज्ञाने वर्तन्ते यतयः परे॥ प्रवृत्तिलक्षणं धर्मं पश्यामि परमं नृप। मग्नस्य हि परे ज्ञाने किं नु दुःखतरं भवेत्॥
English: Following the scriptures relating to Liberation, I find this great fault in the subject, If, having attained to that high state, the Yatis continue to live in consciousness, it would appear, O king, that the religion of work is superior. If, again, consciousness disappear from the liberated state and one who has become liberated only resembles a person sunk in dreamless slumber, then nothing can be more improper than to say that there is really no consciousness in Liberation.
Sanskrit: भीष्म उवाच यथान्यायं त्वया तात प्रश्नः पृष्टः सुसंकटः। बुधानामपि सम्मोहः प्रश्नेऽस्मिन् भरतर्षभ॥
English: Bhishma said “However difficult it may be to answer it, the question which you have asked, O son, is proper. Verily, the question is of such a nature that even the highly learned men become stupefied in answering it, O chief of Bharata's racc.
Sanskrit: अत्रापि तत्त्वं परमं शृणु सम्यड्मयेरितम्। बुद्धिश्च परमा यत्र कापिलानां महात्मनाम्॥
English: For all that, hear what the truth is as explained by me. The great followers of Kapila have set their keen understandings on this point.
Sanskrit: इन्द्रियाण्येव बुध्यन्ते स्वदेहे देहिनां नृप। कारणान्यात्मनस्तानि सूक्ष्मः पश्यति तैस्तु सः॥
English: The senses of knowledge, O king, placed in the bodies of embodied creatures, are engaged in their respective functions of perception. They form the instruments of the Soul, for it through them that subtile Being perceives.
Sanskrit: आत्मना विप्रहीणानि काष्ठकुड्यसमानि तु। विनश्यन्ति न संदेहः फेना इव महार्णवे॥
English: Disassociated from the Soul, the senses are like pieces of wood, and are, forsooth, destroyed like the forth that is seen on the bosom of the ocean.
Sanskrit: इन्द्रियैः सह सुप्तस्य देहिनः शत्रुतापन। सूक्ष्मश्चरति सर्वत्र नभसीव समीरणः॥
English: When the embodied creature, O scorcher of enemies, goes into sleep together with his senses, the subtile Soul then roves among all objects like the wind through ether.
Sanskrit: स पश्यति यथान्यायं स्पर्शान् स्पृशति वा विभो। बुध्यमानो यथापूर्वमखिलेनेह भारत॥
English: The Subtile Soul, during sleep continues to see and touch all objects of touch, O king, and get other perceptions, as well as when it is awake.
Sanskrit: इन्द्रियाणीह सर्वाणि स्वे स्वे स्थाने यथाविधि। अनीशत्वात् प्रलीयन्ते सर्पा हतविषा इव॥
English: On account of their inability to act without their director, the senses, during slumber, all become extinguished in their respective places like snakes shorn of poison.
Sanskrit: इन्द्रियाणां तु सर्वेषां स्वस्थानेष्वेव सर्वशः। आक्रम्य गतयः सूक्ष्माश्चरत्यात्मा न संशयः॥
English: At such times, the subtile Soul, repairing into the respective places of all the senses, forsooth, performs all their functions,
Sanskrit: सत्त्वस्य च गुणान् कृत्स्नान् रजसश्च गुणान् पुनः। गुणांश्च तमसः सर्वान् गुणान् बुद्धेश्च भारत॥ गुणांश्च मनसश्चापि नभसश्च गुणांश्च सः। गुणान् वायोश्च धर्मात्मंस्तेजसश्च गुणान् पुनः॥ अपां गुणांस्तथा पार्थ पार्थिवांश्च गुणानपि। सर्वाण्येव गुणैर्व्याप्य क्षेत्रज्ञषु युधिष्ठिर॥ मनोऽनु याति क्षेत्रज्ञं कर्मणी च शुभाशुभे। शिष्या इव महात्मानमिन्द्रियाणि च तं प्रभो॥
English: All the qualities of Goodness, all the attributes of the Understanding, O Bharata, as also those of Mind, and Ether, and Wind, O you of righteous soul, and all the attributes of liquid substances, of Water, O Partha, and of Earth,-these senses with these qualities,-0 Yudhishthira, which stick to sentiences, are along with the individual Soul itself, overwhelmed by the Supreme Soul or Brahma. Acts also, good and bad, overwhelm that individual Soul. Like disciples attending their preceptor with respect, the senses too wait upon the individual Soul.
Sanskrit: प्रकृतिं चाप्यतिक्रम्य गच्छत्यात्मानमव्ययम्। परं नारायणात्मानं निर्द्वन्द्वं प्रकृतेः परम्॥
English: When the individual Soul, transcends Prakriti, it acquires Brahma that is changeless, that is highest, that is Narayana that is beyond all pairs of opposites, and that is above Nature.
Sanskrit: विमुक्तः पुण्यपापेभ्यः प्रविष्टस्तमनामयम्। परमात्मानमगुणं न निवर्तति भारत॥
English: Freed from both merit and demerit, the individual Soul, entering the Supreme Soul which is shorn of all attributes, and which is the home of all auspiciousness, does not return thence, O Bharata.
Sanskrit: शिष्टं तत्र मनस्तात इन्द्रियाणि च भारत। आगच्छन्ति यथाकालं गुरोः संदेशकारिणः॥
English: These remains, O son, only the mind with the senses, O Bharata. These have to return once more at the appointed time for satisfying the command of their great Master.
Sanskrit: शक्यं चाल्पेन कालेन शान्ति प्राप्तुं गुणार्थिना। एवमुक्तेन कौन्तेय युक्तज्ञानेन मोक्षिणा॥
English: Soon after, O son of Kunti, cast off the Yati striving after Liberation, gifted as he is with knowledge and desirous as he is of quality, succeeds in attaining to that peace of Liberation which one enjoys without the body.
Sanskrit: सांख्या राजन् महाप्राज्ञा गच्छन्ति परमां गतिम्। ज्ञानेनानेन कौन्तेय तुल्यं ज्ञानं न विद्यते॥
English: The Sankhyas, O king, are gifted with great wisdom. They acquire the highest end by means of this kind of knowledge. There is no knowledge that is equal to this.
Sanskrit: अत्र ते संशयो मा भूज्ज्ञानं सांख्यं परं मतम्। अक्षरं ध्रुवमेवोक्तं पूर्ण ब्रह्म सनातनम्॥
English: Do not give way to any sort of doubt. The Knowledge which is described in the system of the Sankhyas is considered all the highest. That knowledge is immutable and is eternal. It is eternal Brahma.
Sanskrit: अनादिमध्यनिधनं निर्द्वन्द्वं कर्तृ शाश्वतम्। कूटस्थं चैव नित्यं च यद् वदन्ति मनीषिणः॥
English: It has no beginning, middle, and end. It is above all pairs of opposites. It is the cause of the creation of the universe. It stands fully. It is without decrease of any kind. It is uniform, and everlasting. Thus are its praises recited by the wise.
Sanskrit: यतः सर्वाः प्रवर्तन्ते सर्गप्रलयविक्रियाः। यच्च शंसन्ति शास्त्रेषु वदन्ति परमर्षयः॥
English: From it originate creation and destruction and all metamorphoses. The great Rishis speak of it and praise it in the scriptures.
Sanskrit: सर्वे विप्राश्च देवाश्च तथा शमविदो जनाः। ब्रह्मण्यं परमं देवमनन्तं परमच्युतम्॥
English: All learned Brahmanas and all the gods and all pious men consider it as originating from Brahma. Supreme, Divine, Infinite, Immutable, and Undeteriorating.
Sanskrit: प्रार्थयन्तश्च तं विप्रा वदन्ति गुणबुद्धयः। सम्यग्युक्तास्तथा योगाः सांख्याश्चामितदर्शनाः॥
English: All Brahmanas, again, who are attached to objects of the senses worship and applaud it by ascribing to it attributes that belong to illusion. The same is the opinion of Yogins well observant of penances and meditation and of Sankhyas of great insight.
Sanskrit: अमूर्तेस्तस्य कौन्तेय सांख्यं मूर्तिरिति श्रुतिः। अभिज्ञानानि तस्याहुर्मतं हि भरतर्षभ॥
English: The Shrutis say, O son of Kunti, that the Sankhya system of philosophy is the form of that Formless One. The cognition have, O chief of Bharata's race, been said to be the knowledge of Brahma.
Sanskrit: द्विविधानीह भूतानि पृथिव्यां पृथिवीपते। जङ्गमागमसंज्ञानि जङ्गमं तु विशिष्यते॥
English: There are two kinds of creatures on Earth, O king, viz., mobile and immobile. Of these, those that are mobile are superior.
Sanskrit: ज्ञानं महद् यद्धि महत्सु राजन् वेदेषु सांख्येषु तथैव योगे। यच्चापि दृष्टं विविधं पुराणे सांख्यागतं तन्निखिलं नरेन्द्र॥
English: That high knowledge, O king, which is in persons conversant with Brahma, and that which is in the Vedas, and that which is seen in other scriptures, and that in Yoga, and that which may be seen in the various Puranas, are all, O monarch, to be found in Sankhya philosophy.
Sanskrit: यच्चेतिहासेषु महत्सु दृष्टं यच्चार्थशास्त्रे नृप शिष्टजुष्टे। ज्ञानं च लोके यदिहास्ति किंचित् सांख्यागतं तच्च महन्महात्मन्॥
English: Whatever knowledge is seen to exist in great histories, whatever knowledge is, O king, in the sciences about the acquisition of riches as approved by the wise, whatever other knowledge exists in this world,-all these,-originate, O great king, from the high knowledge that is among the Sankhyas.
Sanskrit: शमश्च दृष्टः परमं बलं च ज्ञानं च सूक्ष्मं च यथावदुक्तम्। तपांसि सूक्ष्माणि सुखानि चैव सांख्ये यथावद् विहितानि राजन्॥
English: Tranquillity of soul, high power, all subtile knowledge of which the scriptures speak, penances of subtile force, and all sorts of happiness, O king, have all been duly ordained in the Sankhya system,
Sanskrit: विपर्यये तस्य हि पार्थ देवान् गच्छन्ति सांख्याः सततं सुखेन। तांश्चानुसंचार्य ततः कृतार्थाः पतन्ति विप्रेषु यतेषु भूयः॥
English: Failing to acquire, O son of Pritha, that complete knowledge which is recommended by their system, the Sankhyas attain to the dignity of gods and pass many years in happiness. Ruling over the celestials as they will, they fall, upon the expiration of the fixed period, among learned Brahmanas and Yatis.
Sanskrit: हित्वा च देहं प्रविशन्ति देवं दिवौकसौ द्यामिव पार्थ सांख्या:। अतोऽधिकं तेऽभिरता महार्हे सांख्ये द्विजाः पार्थिव शिष्टजुष्टे॥
English: Renouncing this body, those twice-born ones that follow the Sankhya system enter into the superior state of Brahma like the gods entering into the sky by devoting themselves wholly to that worshipful system which is theirs and which is adored by all wise men.
Sanskrit: तेषां न तिर्यग्गमनं हि दृष्टं नार्वाग्गति पाप:कृताधिवासः। न वा प्रधाना अपि ते द्विजातयो ये ज्ञानमेतन्नृपतेऽनुरक्ताः॥
English: Those twice-born ones who are given to the acquisition of that knowledge which is recommended in the Sankhya system, even if they fail to acquire eminence, are never seen to fall among intermediate creatures, or to sink into the state of sinful men.
Sanskrit: सांख्यं विशालं परमं पुराणं महार्णवं विमलमुदारकान्तम्। कृत्स्नं च सांख्यं नृपते महात्मा नारायणो धारयतेऽप्रमेयम्॥
English: That great person who is fully conversant with the vast, high, ancient, oncean-like, and immeasurable Sankhya system who is pure and liberal and agreeable, becomes, O king, equal to Narayana.
Sanskrit: एतन्मयोक्तं नरदेव तत्त्वं नारायणो विश्वमिदं पुराणम्। संसर्गकाले च करोति सर्ग संहारकाले च तदत्ति भूयः॥ संहृत्य सर्वं निजदेहसंस्थं कृत्वाप्सु शेते जगदन्तरात्मा॥
English: I have now told you, O god among men, the truth about the Sankhya system. It is the embodiment of Narayana, of the universe as it exists from antiquity. When the time of Creation comes, He causes the Creation to come into being, and when the time comes for destruction. He swallows up everything. Having withdrawn everything into his own body he goes to slumber,-that inner Soul of the universe.
Sanskrit: युधिष्ठिर उवाच किं तदक्षरमित्युक्तं यस्मानावर्तते पुनः। किं च तत्क्षरमित्युक्तं यस्मादावर्तते पुनः॥
English: What is that which is called Undecaying and by acquiring which no one has to return? What, again, is that which is called Decaying, and by acquiring which one has to return once more?
Sanskrit: अक्षरक्षरयोर्व्यक्तिं पृच्छाम्यरिनिषूदन्। उपलब्धं महाबाहो तत्त्वेन कुरुनन्दन।॥
English: O destroyer of enemies, I ask you the distinction that exists, O you of mighty arms, between the Decaying and the Undecaying ones for understanding them both truly, O delighter of the Kurus.
Sanskrit: त्वं हि ज्ञानानिधिविप्रेसच्यसे वेदपारगैः। ऋषिभिश्च महाभागैर्यतिभिश्च महात्मभिः॥
English: Brahmans conversant with the Vedas, speak of you as on Ocean of knowledge. Highly blessed Rishis and Yatis of great souls do the Salme.
Sanskrit: शेषमल्पं दिनानां ते दक्षिणायनभास्करे। आवृते भगवत्यर्के गन्तासि परमां गतिम्॥
English: You have very few days to live. When the Sun turns from his southern solstice for entering into the northern, you will attain to your high end.
Sanskrit: त्वयि प्रतिगते श्रेयः : कुतः श्रोष्यामहे वयम्। कुरुवंशप्रदीपस्त्वं ज्ञानदीपेन दीप्यसे॥
English: When you will leave us, from whom shall we hear of all that is wholesome for us? You are the lamp of Kuru's race. Indeed, you are always shining with the light of knowledge.
Sanskrit: तदेतच्छ्रोतुमिच्छामि त्वत्तः कुरुकुलोद्वह। न तृप्यामीह राजेन्द्र शृण्वन्नमृतमीदृशम्॥
English: O perpetuator of Kuru's race, I wish, therefore, to hear all this from you. Listening to your discourses which are always sweet like nectar, my curiosity, without being satiated, is always increasing.
Sanskrit: भीष्म उवाच अत्र ते वर्तयिष्यामि इतिहासं पुरातनम्। वसिष्ठस्य च संवादं करालजनकस्य च॥
English: Bhishma said I shall, regarding it, relate to you the old discourse that took place between Vashishtha and king Karala of Janaka's race.
Sanskrit: वसिष्ठं श्रेष्ठमासीनमृषीणां भास्करद्युतिम्। पप्रच्छ जनको राजा ज्ञानं नैःश्रेयसं परम्॥
English: Once on a time when that foremost of Rishis, viz., Vashishtha, effulgent like the Sun, was seated at his ease, king Janaka asked him about that highest knowledge which is for our supreme behoof.
Sanskrit: परमध्यात्मकुशलमध्यात्मगतिनिश्चयम्। मैत्रावरुणिमासीनमभिवाद्य कृताञ्जलिः॥ स्वक्षरं प्रश्रितं वाक्यं मधुरं चाप्यनुल्बणम्। पप्रच्छर्षिवरं राजा करालजनकः पुरा॥ भगवश्रोतुमिच्छामि परं ब्रह्म सनातनम्। यस्मान्न पुनरावृत्तिमाप्नुवन्ति मनीषिणः॥
English: A perfect adept in that department of knowledge which is about the Soul and gifted with sure conclusions about all branches of that science, as Mairtravaruni, that foremost of Rishis, was seated, the king, approaching him with joined hands, asked him in humble words, well said and sweet and shorn of all controversial spirit, this question,-O holy one, I wish to hear of Supreme and Eternal Brahma by attaining to which men of wisdom have not to return.
Sanskrit: यच्च तत् क्षरमित्युक्तं यत्रेदं क्षरते जगत्। यच्चाक्षरमिति प्रोक्तं शिवं क्षेम्यमनामयम्॥
English: I wish also to know that which is called Destructible and That into which this universe goes when destroyed. Indeed, what is That which is said to be indestructible. Auspicious, wholesome and free from all sorts of evil.
Sanskrit: वसिष्ठ उवाच श्रूयतां पृथिवीपाल क्षरतीदं यथा जगत्। यन्न क्षरति पूर्वेण यावत्कालेन वाप्यथ॥
English: Hear, O king, as to how this universe is destroyed, and of That which was never destroyed and which will never be destroyed at any time.
Sanskrit: युगं द्वादशसाहस्रं कल्पं विद्धि चतुर्युगम्। दशकल्पशतावृत्तमहस्तद् ब्राह्ममुच्यते॥
English: Twelve thousand years make a cycle. Four such cycles, taken a thousand times, make a Kalpa which measures one day of Brahman.
Sanskrit: रात्रिश्चैतावती राजन् यस्यान्ते प्रतिबुद्ध्यते। सृजत्यनन्तकर्माणं महान्तं भूतमग्रजम्॥ मूर्तिमन्तममूर्तात्मा विश्वं शम्भुः स्वयम्भुवः। अणिमा लघिमा प्राप्तिरीशानं ज्योतिरव्ययम्॥ सर्वतः पाणिपादं तत् सर्वतोऽक्षिशिरोमुखम्। सर्वतःश्रुतिमल्लोके सर्वमावृत्य तिष्ठति॥
English: Brahman's night also, O king, is of the same measure. When Brahman himself is destroyed, Shambhu of formless soul and to whom the Yoga attributes of lightness, heaviness, etc., naturally stick, awakes, and once more creates that First of all creatures, possessed of huge proportions, of infinite deeds, endued with form, and at one with the universe. That Shambhu is otherwise called Ishana. He is pure Effulgence, and is above all decay, having his hands and feet stretching on all sides with eyes and head and mouth cverywhere, and with ears also in every place. That Being exists, possessing the entire universe.
Sanskrit: हिरण्यगर्भो भगवानेष बुद्धिरिति स्मृतः। महानिति च योगेषु विरिञ्चिरिति चाप्यजः॥
English: The eldest-born Being is called Hiranyagarbha. This holy one has been called the Understanding. In the Yoga scriptures, He is called the Great, and Virinchi, and the Unborn.
Sanskrit: सांख्ये च पठ्यते शास्त्रे नामभिर्वहुधात्मकः। विचित्ररूपो विश्वात्मा एकाक्षर इति स्मृतः॥
English: In the Sankhya system, He is described by diverse names, and considered as having Infinity for his Soul. Of various forms and constituting the soul of the universe, He is considered as One and Indestructible.
Sanskrit: वृतं नैकात्मकं येन कृतं त्रैलोक्यमात्मना। तथैव बहुरूपत्वाद् विश्वरूप इति स्मृतः॥
English: The three worlds of numberless ingredients have been created by Him without help from any source and have been overwhelmed by him. On account of His manifold forins, He is said to be of universal form.
Sanskrit: एष वै विक्रियापन्नः सृजत्यात्मानमात्मना। अहङ्कारं महातेजाः प्रजापतिमहंकृतम्॥
English: Undergoing changes He creates Himself. Gifted with great energy, He first creates Consciousness and that Great Being called Prajapati endued with Consciousness.
Sanskrit: अव्यक्ताद् व्यक्तमापन्नं विद्यासगं वदन्ति तम्। महान्तं चाप्यहङ्कारमविद्यासर्गमेव च॥
English: The Manifest is created from the Unmanifest. This is called by the learned the Creation of Knowledge. The creation of (Virat) and Consciousness, by Hiranyagarbha, is the Creation of Ignorance.
Sanskrit: अविधिश्च विधिश्चैव समुत्पन्नौ तथैकतः। विद्याविद्येति विख्याते श्रुतिशास्त्रार्थचिन्तकैः॥
English: Allotment of attributes and the destruction thereof, called respectively by the names of Ignorance and Knowledge by persons learned in the Shrutis, then arose, referring to this, that, or the other of the three.
Sanskrit: भूतसर्गमहङ्कारात् तृतीयं विद्धि पार्थिवा अहङ्कारेषु सर्वेषु चतुर्थं विद्धि वैकृतम्॥
English: Know, O king, that the creation of the elements from Consciousness is the third. In all the kinds of Consciousness is the fourth creation which originates from modification of the third.
Sanskrit: वायुयोतिरथाकाशमापोऽथ पृथिवी तथा। शब्दः स्पर्शश्च रूपं च रसो गन्धस्तथैव च॥
English: This fourth creation consists of Wind and Light and Ether and Water and Earth, with their properties of sound, touch, form, taste, and scent. arose
Sanskrit: एवं युगपदुत्पन्नं दशवर्गमसंशयम्। पञ्चमं विद्धि राजेन्द्र भौतिकं सर्गमर्थवत्॥
English: This aggregate of ten arose, forsooth, at the same time. The fifth creation, O king, is that which has originated, from combinations of the principal elements.
Sanskrit: श्रोत्रं त्वक् चक्षुषी जिह्वा घ्राणमेव च पञ्चमम्। वाक् च हस्तौ च पादौ च पायुर्मेदूं तथैव च॥
English: This comprises the ear, the skin, the eyes, the tongue, and the nose forming the fifth, and speech, and the two hands, and the two legs, and the lower canal, and the organs of generation.
Sanskrit: बुद्धीन्द्रियाणि चैतानि तथा कर्मेन्द्रियाणि च। सम्भूतानीह युगपन्मनसा सह पार्थिव॥
English: The first five of those form the organs of knowledge, and the last five the organs of action. All these, with mind, simultaneously, O king.