Accounts of creation in Sanskrit literature include a number of hymns in the R̥gveda principal among which are R̥V 10.72, 10.81–82, 10.90, 10.121, and 10.129. Later accounts appear in the Mānavadhārmaśāstra , the Mahābhārata , and purāṇas. Scholars generally describe these accounts as various, mutually inconsistent myths, or as superseded stages of philosophical thought. Even recent treatments of Indian cosmogony that praise the poetic subtlety and prowess of their composers consider their work as products of individual poetic imagination. Yet, despite the variety of expression in the various accounts, they appear to convey a consistent model of the origin of the world. Moreover, the model of the absolute and the first stages of creation mirror the descriptions of the development of enlightenment in foundational texts of Vedānta and systematic analyses of Yoga. The descriptions of creation may therefore rather be the result of the special insight of enlightened sages than the results of individual imagination.

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创世神话与梵文文学启蒙

梵文文献中关于创造的记载包括 R̥gveda 主要的一些赞美诗，其中 R̥V 10.72、10.81-82、10.90、10.121 和 10.129。后来的记载出现在 Mānavadhārmaśāstra、Mahābhārata 和 purāṇas。学者们通常将这些描述描述为各种相互矛盾的神话，或者被取代的哲学思想阶段。即使是最近对印度宇宙起源的处理，赞美他们作曲家的诗意微妙和能力，也认为他们的作品是个人诗歌想象的产物。然而，尽管在不同的描述中表达方式多种多样，但它们似乎传达了一致的世界起源模型。而且，创造的绝对和第一阶段的模型反映了吠檀多基础文本和瑜伽系统分析中对开悟发展的描述。因此，对创造的描述可能更像是启蒙圣人特殊洞察力的结果，而不是个人想象的结果。