The Description of Creation,^ - Verse 3
Kurma Purana (GRETIL / Internet Archive OCR) · 7 · Verse 3
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Sanskrit Original
पञ्चधावस्थितः सर्गो ध्यायतः सो ऽभिमानिनः। संवृतस्तमसा चैव बीजकम्भुवनावृतः।।
pañcadhāvasthitaḥ sargo dhyāyataḥ so 'bhimāninaḥ| saṃvṛtastamasā caiva bījakambhuvanāvṛtaḥ||
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The creation remained five-fold (as Avidya is of five kinds), even as he was meditating and identifying himself with it. It was enveloped by darkness and lay covered like a pot of seeds (P)^. {y.l. i.e. buried under ground like seeds and roots.)