Garuda Purana

सर्गश्च प्रतिसर्गश्च वंशो मन्वन्तराणि च 4.

Creation, dissolution, genealogies, and the ages of Manu are described.

श्रृणु रुद्र प्रवक्ष्यामि सर्गादीन्पापनाशनान् 4.

Hear, O Rudra, I shall declare the creation and other subjects that destroy sin.

नरनारायणो देवो वासुदेवो निरंजनः 4.

The divine Nara-Narayana, Vasudeva, and the stainless one are spoken of.

तदेतत्सर्वमेवैतव्द्यक्ताव्यक्तस्वरूपवत् । तथा पुरुषरूपेण कालरूपेण च स्थितम् ।। 4.

All this exists in both manifest and unmanifest forms, as well as in the form of the person and in the form of time.

व्यक्तं विष्णुस्तथाऽव्यक्तं पुरुषः काल एव च 4.

The manifest is Vishnu, the unmanifest is the person, and time as well.

अनादिनिधनो धाता त्वनन्तः पुरुषोत्तमः 4.

The creator is without beginning or end, infinite, and the supreme person.

तस्माहुद्धिर्मनस्तस्मात्ततः खं पवनस्ततः 4.

From him comes intellect; from intellect, mind; then space; then wind.

अण्डो हिरण्मयो रुद्र । तस्यान्तः स्वयमेव हि 4.

The golden egg is Rudra; within it, he himself abides.

ब्रह्मा चतुर्मुखो भूत्वा रजोमात्राधिकः सदा 4.

Brahma, having four faces, always possesses predominance of rajas.

अण्डस्यान्तर्जगत्सर्वं सदेवासुरमानुषम् 4.

Within the egg is the entire world, with gods, demons, and humans.

अपसंह्रियते चान्ते संहर्त्ता च स्वयं हरि 4.

At the end, all is withdrawn, and Hari himself is the destroyer.

रुद्ररूपी च कल्पान्ते जगत्संहरतेऽखिलम् 4.

At the end of the cycle, taking the form of Rudra, he destroys the entire world.

दंष्टूयोद्धरति ज्ञात्वा वारहीमास्थितस्तनूम् 4.

Assuming the form of a boar, he lifts it with his tusks, knowing this.

प्रथमो महतः सर्गो विरूपो ब्रह्मणस्तु सः 4.

The first creation of the great is the deformed one, belonging to Brahma.

वैकारिकस्तृतीयस्तु सर्गस्त्वैन्द्रियकः स्मृतः 4.

The third creation is called vaikārika, and the creation of the senses.

मुख्यसर्गश्चतुर्थस्तु मुख्या वै स्थावराः स्मृताः 4.

The fourth creation is the principal one; the principal immovable beings are remembered.

तदूर्द्धस्त्रोतसां षष्ठो देवसर्गस्तु स स्मृतः 4.

The sixth creation, above the upward-flowing ones, is remembered as the creation of the gods.

अष्टमोऽनुग्रहः सर्गः सात्त्विकस्तामसस्तु सः 4.

The eighth creation is favor, sattvic and also tamasic.

प्राकृतो वैकृतश्चापि कौमारो नवमः स्मृतः 4.

The prākṛta and vaikṛta creations, and the kaumāra, are remembered as the ninth.

ब्रह्मणः कुर्वतः सृष्टिं जज्ञिरे मानसाः सुताः 4.

As Brahma was creating, his mind-born sons were produced.

सिसृक्षुरम्भांस्येतानि स्वमात्मानमपूजयत् 4.

Desiring to create these waters, he worshipped his own self.

सिसृक्षेर्जघनात्पूर्वमसुरा जज्ञिरे ततः 4.

Desiring creation, first from his lower part, the asuras were born.

तमोमात्रा तनुस्त्यक्ता शङ्कराभूद्विभावरी 4.

Having abandoned the body composed of tamas, night arose, resembling Shankara.

सत्त्वोद्रिक्तास्तु मुखतः संभूता ब्रह्मणो हर ! 4.

Those with abundant sattva were born from Brahma’s mouth, O Hara!

ततो हि बलिनो रात्रावसुरा देवता दिवा 4.

Then, indeed, the powerful asuras are of the night, and the gods are of the day.

सा चोत्सृष्टाभवत्सन्ध्या दिननक्तान्तरस्थितिः 4.

And that Sandhyā was created, existing between day and night.

सा त्यक्ता चाभवज्ज्योत्स्त्रा प्राक्‌सन्ध्या याभिधीयते 4.

When she was abandoned, she became the luminous one called Prāk-sandhyā.

रजोमात्रां तनु गृह्य क्षुदभूत्कोप एव च 4.

Taking only a portion of rajas, she became thin, and from hunger, anger arose.

यक्षाख्या यक्षणाज्ज्ञेयाः सर्पा वै केशसर्पणात् 4.

Those known as Yakṣas are to be understood as born from her yawning, and serpents from the shaking of her hair.