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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 2, Ch. 10]
daśamasya viśuddhy-arthaṁ navānām iha lakṣaṇam varṇayanti mahātmānaḥ śrutenārthena cāñjasā
daśamasya—of the summum bonum; viśuddhi—isolation; artham—purpose; navānām—of the other nine; iha—in this Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam; lakṣaṇam—symptoms; varṇayanti—they describe; mahā-ātmānaḥ—the great sages; śrutena—by Vedic evidences; arthena—by direct explanation; ca—or; añjasā—summarily.
TRANSLATION
In order to eliminate transcendence of the summum bonum, the symptoms of the rest are described sometimes by Vedic inference, sometimes by direct explanation, and sometimes by summary explanation given by the great sages.
TEXT 3
भूतमात्रेन्द्रियधियां जन्म सर्ग उदाहृतः । ब्रह्मणो गुणवैषम्याद्विसर्गः पौरुषः स्मृतः ॥ ३ ॥
bhūta-mātrendriya-dhiyām janma sarga udāhṛtaḥ brahmaṇo guṇa-vaiṣamyād visargaḥ pauruṣaḥ smṛtaḥ
bhūta—the five gross elements like the sky, etc.; mātrā—objects perceived by the senses; indriya—the senses; dhiyām—of the mind; janma—creation; sargaḥ—manifestation; udāhṛtaḥ—is called the creation; brahmaṇaḥ—of Brahmā, the first puruṣa; guṇa-vaiṣamyāt—by interaction of the three modes of nature; visargaḥ—recreation; pauruṣaḥ—resultant activities; smṛtaḥ—it is so known.
TRANSLATION
The elementary creation of sixteen items of matter—namely the five elements [fire, water, land, air and sky], sound, form, taste, smell, touch, eyes, ears, nose, tongue, skin and mind—is known as sarga, whereas subsequent resultant interaction of the modes of material nature is called visarga.
PURPORT
In order to explain the ten divisional symptoms of the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, there are seven continuous verses. The first of these under