Manava Dharmashastra 1.5.3

1.5.3

prakriyābahulaṃ cedaṃ sarvamupanyasiṣyate | kvacitpaurāṇo prakriyā, kvacit sāṃkhyānām | na tayā jñātayā'jñātayā vā kaściddharmādharmayorviśeṣa iti nipuṇatayā na nirūpyate | arthitā cettata evānveṇyā | padārthayojanāvyākhyānamātraṃ tvadhyāyasyopadiśyate tadeva kariṣyāmaḥ | tātparyamupadarśitameva |

This subject (of Creation and Dissolution) in its details shall be found described (in verses 7 et seq.) and the process described shall be in some places in accordance with the Purāṇas and sometimes in accordance with the Sāṅkhya doctrines. But the knowing or not knowing of those details does not make any difference in Right and Wrong; hence we are not going to deal with it in detail. If any person stands in need of the detailed account of the process, be should search for it in the said sources of information. What we undertake to do is to construe and explain the words of the text, and this is all that we shall do. A brief exposition of the purport of the Discourse we have already given.