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Origin of the four castes; their primitive state - Verse 3

Vishnu Purana (GRETIL; M. M. Pathak critical edition) · 1 · Verse 6.3

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Sanskrit Original

सत्याभिध्यायिनः पूर्वं सिसृक्षोर ब्रह्मणो जगत अजायन्त द्विजश्रेष्ठ सत्त्वोद्रिक्ता मुखात प्रजाः ।।

satyābhidhyāyinaḥ pūrvaṃ sisṛkṣor brahmaṇo jagat ajāyanta dvijaśreṣṭha sattvodriktā mukhāt prajāḥ ||

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From the truth-seeking Brahman, the world that desires to create was born, and from his mouth, the foremost of the twice-born, the beings endowed with goodness, came forth.