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Description of Creation by Means of Prakrti.^ - Verse 13

Kurma Purana (GRETIL / Internet Archive OCR) · 4 · Verse 13

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Sanskrit Original

प्रकृतिं पुरुषं चैव प्रविश्याशु महेश्वरः। क्षोभयामास योगेन परेण परमेश्वरः।।

prakṛtiṃ puruṣaṃ caiva praviśyāśu maheśvaraḥ| kṣobhayāmāsa yogena pareṇa parameśvaraḥ||

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Promptly entering both Prakrti and Purusa, the great God, the Supreme Deity, agitated them by his highest Toga. Visnu passages remained as before. The footnote No. 7 of Venkateshvara Ed. tries to give the Saivite explanation : catvdrah vyuhd adhasthana-bheda yasya tathoktah / Also Mahesvara being all-pervading constitutes all stages (avastkd), hence he is called caturvyuha.