देवहूतिरुवाच अथाप्यजोऽन्त:सलिले शयानं भूतेन्द्रियार्थात्ममयं वपुस्ते । गुणप्रवाहं सदशेषबीजं दध्यौ स्वयं यज्जठराब्जजात: ॥ २ ॥
devahutir uvaca athapy ajo ’ntah-salile sayanam bhutendriyarthatma-mayam vapus te guna-pravaham sad-asesa-bijam dadhyau svayam yaj-jatharabja-jatah
- devahutih uvaca
- Devahuti said
- atha api
- moreover
- ajah
- Lord Brahma
- antah-salile
- in the water
- sayanam
- lying
- bhuta
- the material elements
- indriya
- the senses
- artha
- the sense objects
- atma
- the mind
- mayam
- pervaded by
- vapuh
- body
- te
- Your
- guna-pravaham
- the source of the stream of the three modes of material nature
- sat
- manifest
- asesa
- of all
- bijam
- the seed
- dadhyau
- meditated upon
- svayam
- himself
- yat
- of whom
- jathara
- from the abdomen
- abja
- from the lotus flower
- jatah
- born
Devahuti said: Brahma is said to be unborn because he takes birth from the lotus flower which grows from Your abdomen while You lie in the ocean at the bottom of the universe. But even Brahma simply meditated upon You, whose body is the source of unlimited universes.