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The Description of Creation,^ - Verse 51

Kurma Purana (GRETIL / Internet Archive OCR) · 7 · Verse 51

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Sanskrit Original

सर्पा यक्षास्तथा बूता गन्धर्वाः संप्रजज्ञिरे। रजस्तमोभ्यामाविष्टांस्ततो ऽन्यानसृजत प्रभुः।।

sarpā yakṣāstathā būtā gandharvāḥ saṃprajajñire| rajastamobhyāmāviṣṭāṃstato 'nyānasṛjat prabhuḥ||

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That body became the dawn, O Brahmanas. It is also termed as morning-twilight. O leading Brahmanas, then Lord Brahma attained the body of Tarmsic and Rajasic nature {v.l. He assumed it). In the darkness were born Raksasas over¬ whelmed with hunger.