अध्याय 172
श्लोक 1
शिवपार्वत्योः क्रीडाविहारं, पार्वत्या उषसं पतिसमागमस्य वरदानं, उषसः विरहव्यथा वर्णनं क्रीडाविहारोपगतः कदाचिदभवद् भवः ।देव्या सह नदीतीरे रम्ये श्रीमति स प्रभुः
śivapārvatyoḥ krīḍāvihāraṃ, pārvatyā uṣasaṃ patisamāgamasya varadānaṃ, uṣasaḥ virahavyathā varṇanaṃ krīḍāvihāropagataḥ kadācidabhavad bhavaḥ | devyā saha nadītīre ramye śrīmati sa prabhuḥ
हिन्दी अर्थ
वैशम्पायनजी कहते हैं—जनमेजय! किसी समय प्रभावशाली भगवान् शड्जर गड्जा नदीके शोभासम्पन्न रमणीय तटपर देवी पार्वतीके साथ क्रीडा-विहारके लिये गये
English
After the departure of that mind-begotten son the Lord Brahmā created the third Bhurbhuvaloka capable of acquiring emancipation and brought into being his third mind-begotten son. Afterwards commanded by Brahmā that mind-begotten son appeared before them and acquainted himself with their religion and movements. These three persons are said to have been the sons of the high-souled Shamvu (18–19). Having taken with him these three sons the Lord Nārāyana and Kapila, the lord of ascetics, went to his own region (20). After their departure Brahmā, ever observant of vows, began again to practise hard austerities. Continually carrying on penances alone and not desisting from them the Lord Brahmā created from half of his body a beautiful wife. Intercoursing with that wife capable of creating the world and equal to him in ascetic power, effulgence and self-control Brahmā, pervaded by the quality of Tamas, created the patriarchs, the oceans, rivers, the sacred verse Gāyatri, the mother of the Vedas and the four Vedas. As the instruments of his own work the grand-father, the creator of the world, created sons, the husbands of the universe and the creation from whom all the worlds emanated (21–26).