सूत उवाच जगृहे पौरुषं रूपं भगवान्महदादिभि: । सम्भूतं षोडशकलमादौ लोकसिसृक्षया ॥ १ ॥
suta uvaca jagrhe paurusam rupam bhagavan mahad-adibhih sambhutam sodasa-kalam adau loka-sisrksaya
- sutah uvaca
- Suta said
- jagrhe
- accepted
- paurusam
- plenary portion as the purusa incarnation
- rupam
- form
- bhagavan
- the Personality of Godhead
- mahat-adibhih
- with the ingredients of the material world
- sambhutam
- thus there was the creation of
- sodasa-kalam
- sixteen primary principles
- adau
- in the beginning
- loka
- the universes
- sisrksaya
- on the intention of creating.
Suta said: In the beginning of the creation, the Lord first expanded Himself in the universal form of the purusa incarnation and manifested all the ingredients for the material creation. And thus at first there was the creation of the sixteen principles of material action. This was for the purpose of creating the material universe.