38 - Creation of Brahma 

Shailādi said: 

1.  When lord Shiva had gone, lord Vişhņu, the origin of Brahma, bowed down in that direction and said to the lotus born deity. 

Shri Vişhnu said: 

2. The supreme god Shiva, the lord of the universe, is omni- present. He is the lord and refuge of us both as well as of the entire universe. 

3. O Brahmă, I am born of the left side of Shiva the supreme soul. You are born of his right side. 

4. The sages observe me and say that I am Pradhana, the Prakruti, the Avyakta (unmanifest) and the Aja (unborn). They call you Puruşha. 

5. They call the supreme lord the cause of us both, as lord of the universe. He is the unchanging lord Ishvara. 

6. At the instance of the lord of the immortals, the lotus. born deity eulogised and bowed to Rudra the most excellent one and the bestower of boons. 

 7. Then Vişhņu assumed the form of a Boar and lifted up the earth submerged under the water. He re-established it as it was originally. 

8. With great effort he made the earth even, without ups and downs. The lord created the rivulets, rivers and the oceans as before. 

9. The lord having the form of a boar253 the uplifter of the earth, gathered all the mountains together. As before he created the four worlds beginning with Bhūh. 

253. bhūdharåkruti-in the person of King Prthu, son of Vena. Bhāga. ascribes the levelling of the earth to King Pruthu in the form of boar, uplifting the carth submerged in waters. 

10. The lord who was the most excellent of all intelligent persons became inclined to create the chief creation, the animal creation, and then the divine and human creations. 

11-16. With the intellect free from wretchedness the lord at the outset created Sananda, Sanaka and Sanatana the most excellent among the good. All these practised Naişhkarmya and attained the greatest being. By his yogic learning he created Marichi, Bhrugu, Angiras, Pulastya, Pulaha, Kratu, Dakşha, Atri, Vasişhtha, Sankalpa, Dharma and Adharma. Thus there are twelve sons to Brahmā born of the unmanifest. 

At the outset the eternal lord had created Rubhu and Sanatkumāra. These two fresh born sons had sublimated their sexuality, and were divine expounders of Brahman. They were bachelors, omniscient, conceivers of everything and equal to Brahmā himself. After creating the sargas-Mukhya etc. O Shilāšhana, the lotus-born deity, the crtator of the universe, evolved all the special characteristics of the different ages.