Evolution of universe - What Hinduism says - Series 1

I have been doing some research on this particular topic. My initial readings gave me interesting inputs and this made me to write a post on this topic. I  will start writing a series of posts on this starting from Evolution of universe, About Lord Brahma, manvantara, Who are Devas , Who are Asuras , Different Yugas, Life span of each Yuga,different incarnation of Lord Vishnu  etc, and ofcourse these are based on the puranas and other information that I had read through while going through several articles relation to Hinduism.

Human race have been doing several research on this and we might have advanced a lot in scientific side , however my article is more on the Hindu belief through various Vedas and Puranas.

Let me start this first post on how the universe was created by Lord Brahma and these information are based on the details through puranas. Before understanding on how the universe was created, we need to know how the Trimurthy's ( Brahma , Vishnu , Siva) were created.

Initially there was nothing in the universe other than Brahmana ( existance of Divine). From Brahmana the three God's Brahma, Vishnu and Siva were created. Initially universe were created and filled with water. Water is termed as Nara and lord Vishnu was lying (yana) on AdiSesha and hence he is been termed as Narayana. A golden egg came out of the ocean in the universe in which Lord Brahma was staying in for an year. Brahma was created by himself and hence he is also called as Hiranyagarbha and he came out of the golden egg by splitting it into two. By spliting the egg Lord Brahma has created the earth and swarga. Both earth and Swarga were created with Skies, air, water etc.

After this Lord Brahma gave a birth to 14 prajapatis who will take care of the world. These prajapatis were born from the mind of Lord Brahma.  They are
Daksha,
Prachetas,
Pulaha,
Marichi,
Kasyapa,
Bhrigu,
Atri,
Vasistha,
Gautama,
Angiras,
Pulastya,
Kratu,
Prahlada and
Kardama who are the caretakers of the fourteen worlds - seven lokas and seven talas.

Also as some may be curious to know what are these 14 lokas means. They are
Higher Lokas (Heaven) which are 7 lokas and lower lokas (Hell) which are 7 lokas again.

Higher ( Heaven)
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Bhur Loka
Bhuvar Loka
Svar Loka
Mahar Loka
Jana Loka
Tapo Loka
Satya Loka

Lower (Hell)
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Atalam
Vitalam
Sutalam
Talaa-Talam
Rasaa-Talam
Mahaa-Talam
Paataalam

We are currently in Bhur Loka ( should read as Bhu Loka).

In my next blog, we will know more details of Lord Brahma followed by each of the Prajapatis ( may be 10 of them as I am unable to find the details for all the 14) who were created by Brahma to take care of the 14 lokas.

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