कदाचिद् ध्यायत: स्रष्टुर्वेदा आसंश्चतुर्मुखात् । कथं स्रक्ष्याम्यहं लोकान् समवेतान् यथा पुरा ॥ ३४ ॥
kadacid dhyayatah srastur veda asams catur-mukhat katham sraksyamy aham lokan samavetan yatha pura
- kadacit
- once upon a time
- dhyayatah
- while contemplating
- srastuh
- of Brahma
- vedah
- the Vedic literature
- asan
- became manifested
- catuh-mukhat
- from the four mouths
- katham sraksyami
- how shall I create
- aham
- myself
- lokan
- all these worlds
- samavetan
- assembled
- yatha
- as they were
- pura
- in the past.
Once upon a time, when Brahma was thinking of how to create the worlds as in the past millennium, the four Vedas, which contain all varieties of knowledge, became manifested from his four mouths.