Markandeyapurana 48.28-30
Mārkaṇḍeyapurāṇa 48.28-30
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- Sanskrit
48.28
evaṃ paśvoṣadhīḥ sṛṣṭvā hyayajaccādhvare vibhuḥ /
tasmādādau tu kalpasya tretāyugamukhe tadā //
Having thus created domestic animals and plants, the Lord sacrificed at an offering / at that time in the beginning of the kalpa, at the dawn of the Tretāyuga.
When these eight classes of divine beings were created, the lord next created other things, birds and cattle.[16] He created goats[17] from his mouth; and he created sheep from his breast; and Brahmā fashioned kine[18] from his belly and from his loins; and from his feet swift[19] horses and asses, and hares and deer, camels and mules and other animals of various kinds; plants and fruit-trees were produced from the hair of his body. When he had thus created the cattle and plants, the lord performed a sacrifice.
From him at the beginning of the kalpa, at the commencement of the Tretā Age issued the cow, the goat, mankind, the sheep, the horse, the mule, and the ass (these animals men call domestic cattle), and others (which they call wild animals, hearken to me), namely the beast of prey, the cloven-hoofed beast, the elephant, monkeys, fifthly birds, sixthly aquatic beasts, and seventhly creeping animals.
48.29
gaurajaḥ puruṣo meṣo aśvāśvataragardabhāḥ /
etān grāmyān paśūnāhurāraṇyāṃśca nibodha me //
The cow, goat, human, ram, horse, mule, and donkey— / these they call domestic animals; hear now from me the wild ones:
48.30
śvāpadaṃ dvikhuraṃ hastī vānarāḥ pakṣipañcamāḥ /
audakāḥ paśavaḥ ṣaṣṭhāḥ saptamāstu sarīsṛpāḥ //
carnivores, cloven-hoofed beasts, the elephant, monkeys, birds as fifth, / aquatic creatures as sixth, and reptiles as the seventh.
Translations (2)
- The Mārkaṇḍeya Purāṇa — Frederick Eden Pargiter 1888, English
- English (machine translation) — English, machine translation
Linked texts (4)
- Liṅgapurāṇa — Vyāsa, Sanskrit
- Viṣṇupurāṇa (critical edition) — Sanskrit
- Liṅgapurāṇa — Ativīrarāma Pāṇṭiyar 1500, Sanskrit
- Ṭoḍarānanda — Ṭoḍaramalla 1564, Sanskrit