Knowledge about the world - Verse 192
Brahmanda Purana (GRETIL / Wisdomlib) · 7 · Verse 192
Sanskrit Original
ध्यायतस्तस्य तानीह संभूत्यर्थमुपस्तिताः। मन्वंतरक्रमेणेह कनिष्ठाः प्रथमेन ताः।।
dhyāyatastasya tānīha saṃbhūtyarthamupastitāḥ| manvaṃtarakrameṇeha kaniṣṭhāḥ prathamena tāḥ||
Sūta said: (Defective) Formerly, I had mentioned to you about those people who in the previous Kalpa resorted to Janaloka. As when he meditated upon them, all these created beings, approached him for the purpose of being born (again). In the course of Manvantaras, they were first junior-most (?) They were well-renowned by the people of their race (?). They had all the faculties of cleverness or otherwise, unimpaired. They had minor calamities due to the defect of the fruits of their own activities. Those who were present consisted of Devas, Asuras, Pitṛs Yakṣas, Gandharvas, human beings, Rākṣasas, Piśācas, animals, birds, reptiles, trees, worms of hells etc. For the sake of food of the subjects, he created Vidātmans (knowing souls) (?)