Markandeya Purana (chapters 94–134) — Chapter 100
MkP 100.1
आदित्यस्तववर्णनम् मार्कण्डेय उवाच तस्य सन्ताप्यमाने तु तेजसोर्ध्वमधस्यथा । सिसृक्षुश्चिन्तयामास पद्मयोनिः पितामहः
ādityastavavarṇanam mārkaṇḍeya uvāca tasya santāpyamāne tu tejasordhvamadhasyathā | sisṛkṣuścintayāmāsa padmayoniḥ pitāmahaḥ
The description of the praise of Āditya. Mārkaṇḍeya said: But when (the world) was being scorched by his light above and below, the lotus-born Grandfather, wishing to create, reflected:
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MkP 100.2
सृष्टिः कृतापि मे नाशं प्रयास्यत्यभितेजसा । भास्वतः सृष्टिसंहारस्थितिहेतोर्महात्मनः
sṛṣṭiḥ kṛtāpi me nāśaṃ prayāsyatyabhitejasā | bhāsvataḥ sṛṣṭisaṃhārasthitihetormahātmanaḥ
"Even the creation I have made will go to destruction by the overwhelming light of the Shining One, the great-souled cause of creation, dissolution and maintenance.
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MkP 100.3
अप्राणाः प्राणिनः सर्व आपः शुष्यन्ति तेजसा । न चाम्भसा विना सृष्टिर्विश्वस्यास्य भविष्यति
aprāṇāḥ prāṇinaḥ sarva āpaḥ śuṣyanti tejasā | na cāmbhasā vinā sṛṣṭirviśvasyāsya bhaviṣyati
All breathing creatures will be without breath; the waters dry up by that heat; and without water there will be no creation of this universe."
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MkP 100.4
इति सञ्चिन्त्य भगवान्स्तोत्रं भगवतो रवेः । चकार तन्मये भूत्वा ब्रह्मा लोकपितामहः
iti sañcintya bhagavānstotraṃ bhagavato raveḥ | cakāra tanmaye bhūtvā brahmā lokapitāmahaḥ
Having thus reflected, the lord Brahmā, grandfather of the worlds, becoming absorbed in him, made a hymn of praise to the lord Sun.
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MkP 100.5
ब्रह्मोवाच नमस्ये यन्मयं सर्वमेतत्सर्वमयश्च यः । विश्वमूर्तिः परं ज्योतिर्यत्तद्ध्यायन्ति योगिनः
brahmovāca namasye yanmayaṃ sarvametatsarvamayaśca yaḥ | viśvamūrtiḥ paraṃ jyotiryattaddhyāyanti yoginaḥ
Brahmā said: I bow to him of whom all this consists and who consists of all, whose form is the universe, the supreme light which the yogins meditate upon.
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MkP 100.6
य ऋङ्मयो यो यजुषां निधानं साम्नां च यो योनिरचिन्त्यशक्तिः । त्रयीमयः स्थूलतयार्धमात्रा परस्वरूपो गुणपारयोग्यः
ya ṛṅmayo yo yajuṣāṃ nidhānaṃ sāmnāṃ ca yo yoniracintyaśaktiḥ | trayīmayaḥ sthūlatayārdhamātrā parasvarūpo guṇapārayogyaḥ
Who consists of the Ṛc, who is the treasury of the Yajuses, and who is the womb of the Sāmans, of inconceivable power; who consists of the triple Veda, who in his gross aspect is the half-measure (of the syllable), whose own higher form is fit to be beyond the qualities.
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MkP 100.7
त्वां सर्वहेतुं परमं च वेद्यमाद्यं परं ज्योतिरवेद्यरूपम् । स्थूलं च देवात्मतया नमस्ते भास्वन्तमाद्यं परमं परेभ्यः
tvāṃ sarvahetuṃ paramaṃ ca vedyamādyaṃ paraṃ jyotiravedyarūpam | sthūlaṃ ca devātmatayā namaste bhāsvantamādyaṃ paramaṃ parebhyaḥ
(I bow to) you, the cause of all, the supreme object of knowledge, the primal one, the highest light whose form cannot be known, and gross through your being a deity: homage to you, the shining, the primal, higher than the high.
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MkP 100.8
सृष्टिं करोमि यदहं तव शक्तिराद्या तत्प्रेरितो जलमहीपवनाग्निरूपाम् । तद्देवतादिविषयां प्रणवाद्यशेषां नात्मेच्छया स्थितिलयावपि तद्वदेव
sṛṣṭiṃ karomi yadahaṃ tava śaktirādyā tatprerito jalamahīpavanāgnirūpām | taddevatādiviṣayāṃ praṇavādyaśeṣāṃ nātmecchayā sthitilayāvapi tadvadeva
When I make creation — I am your primal power, impelled by that — (that creation) has the form of water, earth, wind and fire, has those deities and the rest for its objects, is entire beginning with the praṇava, and is not by my own wish; and just so are maintenance and dissolution too.
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MkP 100.9
वह्निस्त्वमेव जलशोषणतः पृथिव्याः सृष्टिं करोषि जगतां च तथाद्य पाकम् । व्यापी त्वमेव भगवन्गगनस्वरूपं त्वं पञ्चधा जगदिदं परिपासि विश्वम्
vahnistvameva jalaśoṣaṇataḥ pṛthivyāḥ sṛṣṭiṃ karoṣi jagatāṃ ca tathādya pākam | vyāpī tvameva bhagavangaganasvarūpaṃ tvaṃ pañcadhā jagadidaṃ paripāsi viśvam
You yourself are fire; by drying up the water you bring about the creation of the earth and likewise the ripening of the worlds; you alone are all-pervading, O Lord, in the form of the sky; you in fivefold fashion protect this whole world.
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MkP 100.11
नमस्ते देवरूपाय यज्ञरूपाय ते नमः । परब्रह्मस्वरूपाय चिन्त्यमानाय योगिभिः
namaste devarūpāya yajñarūpāya te namaḥ | parabrahmasvarūpāya cintyamānāya yogibhiḥ
Homage to you who have the form of a god; homage to you whose form is the sacrifice; (homage) to you whose nature is the supreme Brahman, upon whom the yogins meditate.
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MkP 100.12
उपसंहर तेजो यत्तेजसः संहतिस्तव । सृष्टेर्विधाताय विभो सृष्टौ चाहं समुद्यतः
upasaṃhara tejo yattejasaḥ saṃhatistava | sṛṣṭervidhātāya vibho sṛṣṭau cāhaṃ samudyataḥ
Draw in your radiance, for the drawing-in of radiance is yours (to do); O all-pervading one, for the sake of ordering creation — for I am set upon creation.
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MkP 100.13
मार्कण्डेय उवाच इत्येवं संस्तुतो भास्वान्ब्रह्मणा सर्गकर्तृणा । उपसंहृतवांस्तेजः परं स्वल्पमधारयत्
mārkaṇḍeya uvāca ityevaṃ saṃstuto bhāsvānbrahmaṇā sargakartṛṇā | upasaṃhṛtavāṃstejaḥ paraṃ svalpamadhārayat
Mārkaṇḍeya said: Thus praised by Brahmā, the maker of creation, the Shining One drew in his radiance and retained only a little of it.
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MkP 100.14
चकार च ततः सृष्टिं जगतः पद्मसम्भवः । तथा तेषु महाभागः पूर्वकल्पान्तरेषु वै
cakāra ca tataḥ sṛṣṭiṃ jagataḥ padmasambhavaḥ | tathā teṣu mahābhāgaḥ pūrvakalpāntareṣu vai
And then the lotus-born one made the creation of the world; and so too, in those former intervals between kalpas, did that greatly fortunate one.
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MkP 100.15
देवासुरादीन्मर्त्त्यांश्च पश्वादीन्वृक्षवीरुधः । ससर्ज पूर्ववद्ब्रह्मा नरकांश्च महामुने
devāsurādīnmarttyāṃśca paśvādīnvṛkṣavīrudhaḥ | sasarja pūrvavadbrahmā narakāṃśca mahāmune
Gods, Asuras and the rest, mortals, beasts and the rest, trees and creeping plants — these Brahmā created as before, and the hells too, O great sage.
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MkP 100.100
यज्ञैर्यजन्ति परमात्मविदो भवन्तं विष्णुस्वरूपमखिलेष्टिमयं विवस्वन् । ध्यायन्ति चापि यतयो नियतात्मचित्ताः सर्वेश्वरं परममात्मविमुक्तिकामा इति श्रीमार्कण्डेयपुराणे आदित्यस्तवो नाम शततमोऽध्यायः
yajñairyajanti paramātmavido bhavantaṃ viṣṇusvarūpamakhileṣṭimayaṃ vivasvan | dhyāyanti cāpi yatayo niyatātmacittāḥ sarveśvaraṃ paramamātmavimuktikāmā iti śrīmārkaṇḍeyapurāṇe ādityastavo nāma śatatamo'dhyāyaḥ
Those who know the supreme Self worship you with sacrifices, O Vivasvat, you whose form is Viṣṇu and who comprise every oblation; and ascetics too, with self and mind restrained, desiring the highest liberation of the self, meditate on you, the lord of all. — Thus in the glorious Mārkaṇḍeya Purāṇa the hundredth chapter, called the Praise of Āditya.
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