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Brahm膩. K峁�emar膩ja岣� explains that this Brahm膩 refers to the
rudra岣� who rules over the plane of the intellect immediately
below.
K峁�emar膩ja's remarks point to an earlier identification of the
intellect with Brahm膩 as the regent of the egg of Brahm膩.
Supporting this supposition, the text's description cited above of
what has been dissolved into the unmanifest or Prak峁泃i岣� reads as
if a description of the dissolution of the egg of Brahm膩.1
Accordingly, many Pur膩峁噄c accounts of cosmogony identify Brahm膩
as the intellect, and the egg of Brahm膩 as the first manifestation
of Prak峁泃i岣� that contains all its manifest planes. 2 In its theistic
varieties, these cosmogonies may have the supreme lord as the
twenty-sixth principle, outside of the egg of Brahma and beyond
Prak峁泃i岣�, just as the verses here designate the regent rudra岣�,
艢rika峁囜弓ha岣�. 3 This would also parallel the declaration in the
preceding book that locates 艢rika峁囜弓ha岣� above the world of
Brahm膩. 4 These verses in Svacchandatantram, therefore, still
1 As a reflection of this identification, in the preceding book
(pp. 397ff, vs. 968) Brahm膩, residing at the plane of the intellect,
emanates the various matrices of existence.
2 V. Agrawala, The Matsya Pur膩峁嘺- A Study, pp.5ff, for the
many variants of the basic cosmogonic myth of the universe as a
golden egg (andam) associated with Brahm膩.
3 on the twenty-sixth principle as the supreme lord beyond the
twenty-five principles up to Puru峁�a岣�, v., for example, the
Mah膩bh膩rata, 鈥淢ok峁�adharmaparvan鈥� 12, 306, vss.52-79 (pp.1692鈥�
1696).
4 In the preceding book (p.426), 艢rikantha's world lies above
Brahm膩, in the plane of the intellect, but not in the plane of the
person. As explained by K峁�emar膩ja岣� (p.155), twenty-six refers to
Srikantha's location here at the plane of Puru峁�a岣�, above the twenty-
five preceding planes that by counting the constituents as a separate
plane end at Prak峁泃i岣�. This would also explain his subsequent (p.156)
identification with the planes of the jacket (ka帽cukam) that function
to restrict, as explained before, the consciousness to a limited person