विलोक्यैकान्तभूतानि भूतान्यादौ प्रजापति: । स्त्रियं चक्रे स्वदेहार्धं यया पुंसां मतिर्हृता ॥ ३० ॥
vilokyaikanta-bhutani bhutany adau prajapatih striyam cakre sva-dehardham yaya pumsam matir hrta
- vilokya
- seeing
- ekanta-bhutani
- detached
- bhutani
- the living entities
- adau
- in the beginning
- prajapatih
- Lord Brahma
- striyam
- the woman
- cakre
- created
- sva-deha
- of his body
- ardham
- half
- yaya
- by whom
- pumsam
- of men
- matih
- the mind
- hrta
- carried away.
In the beginning of creation, Lord Brahma, the father of the living entities of the universe, saw that all the living entities were unattached. To increase population, he then created woman from the better half of man’s body, for woman’s behavior carries away a man’s mind.