श्रीहिरण्यकशिपुरुवाच कल्पान्ते कालसृष्टेन योऽन्धेन तमसावृतम् । अभिव्यनग्जगदिदं स्वयञ्ज्योति: स्वरोचिषा ॥ २६ ॥ आत्मना त्रिवृता चेदं सृजत्यवति लुम्पति । रज:सत्त्वतमोधाम्ने पराय महते नम: ॥ २७ ॥
sri-hiranyakasipur uvaca kalpante kala-srstena yo ’ndhena tamasavrtam abhivyanag jagad idam svayanjyotih sva-rocisa atmana tri-vrta cedam srjaty avati lumpati rajah-sattva-tamo-dhamne paraya mahate namah
- sri-hiranyakasipuh uvaca
- Hiranyakasipu said
- kalpa-ante
- at the end of every day of Lord Brahma
- kala-srstena
- created by the time factor
- yah
- he who
- andhena
- by dense darkness
- tamasa
- by ignorance
- avrtam
- covered
- abhivyanak
- manifested
- jagat
- cosmic manifestation
- idam
- this
- svayam-jyotih
- self-effulgent
- sva-rocisa
- by his bodily rays
- atmana
- by himself
- tri-vrta
- conducted by the three modes of material nature
- ca
- also
- idam
- this material world
- srjati
- creates
- avati
- maintains
- lumpati
- annihilates
- rajah
- of the mode of passion
- sattva
- the mode of goodness
- tamah
- and the mode of ignorance
- dhamne
- unto the supreme lord
- paraya
- unto the supreme
- mahate
- unto the great
- namah
- my respectful obeisances
Let me offer my respectful obeisances unto the supreme lord within this universe. At the end of each day of his life, the universe is fully covered with dense darkness by the influence of time, and then again, during his next day, that self-effulgent lord, by his own effulgence, manifests, maintains and destroys the entire cosmic manifestation through the material energy, which is invested with the three modes of material nature. He, Lord Brahma, is the shelter of those modes of nature — sattva-guna, rajo-guna and tamo-guna.