Agnipurana 17.16
Agnipurāṇa 17.16
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17.16
saptaite janayanti sma prajā rudrāś ca sattama /
dvidhā kṛtvātmano dehamardhena puruṣo 'bhavat //
ardhena nārī tasyāṃ sa brahmā vai cāsṛjat prajāḥ //
These seven engendered creatures, and the Rudras, O best of men.
Having divided his body into two, with one half he became a man,
and with one half a woman; upon her that Brahmā indeed begot creatures.
17.16.p1
:e ity ādimahāpurāṇe āgneye jagatsargavarṇanaṃ nāma saptadaśo
'dhyāyaḥ
Thus ends the seventeenth chapter, entitled ‘The Description of the Creation of the Universe’, in the primary Mahāpurāṇa, the Āgneya.
17.16.p3
:ś atha aṣṭādaśo 'dhyāyaḥ
Now the eighteenth chapter.
17.16.p4
svāyambhuvavaṃśavarṇanam
Description of the lineage of Svāyambhuva.
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- English (machine translation) — English, machine translation
Other recensions (1)
- Agnipurāṇa (Nag Publishers edition, Delhi) — Sanskrit
Linked texts (4)
- Critical edition (BORI) — Sanskrit
- Brahmapurāṇa — Vyāsa, Sanskrit
- Mānava Dharmaśāstra — Manu & Bhṛgu, Sanskrit
- Vallālacarita — Ānandabhaṭṭa 1510, Sanskrit