Book 3 - Adhyaya 1

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

After hearing the third Section recounted by the intelligent Suta, the excellent sages asked him about the fourth Pada.

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

"Out of tenderness and affection for us, the third fore-gone Section has been covered by you. Describe in detail the fourth Section called 'annihilation' (Samhdra).

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

Although the title signifies the 'merger of the entire three worlds in their constituent elements during the period of a complete d ay (i.e. clay and night) of Brahma ( vide VV. 236,237), it contains much more material from the description of future Manus or rather Manu-periods and the ultimate dissolution of everything after god Brahma's 'merger' into the 'equilibrium of three gunas'.

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

Understand, even as I recount, the summary of the Manvantaras along with the future seven (Manvantaras) a& well as the dissolution of the worlds.

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

These Manvantaras have been recounted perfectly. The subjects (i.e. creations) in the seven Manvantaras have also been recounted. 1 2 Listen to the brief description of the future Manvantaras from me.

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

I shall mention the details of Savarna the future Manu and son ofVivasvan (the Sun god). Understand briefly the future (details).

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

The twenty Devas of the Sutapa group are: Rtu, Tapa, Sukra, Krti, Nemi, iPrabhakara, Prabhasa,

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

For the general information about Manu-Periods (Manvantaras). aide supra I. ii. 35-150-215, Ibid chapters 36, 37, 38.

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

As stated in Bli. P. XII. 7- 15, in every Manu-Period there are five types of officers: (1) Manu, (2) A group of seven sages, (3) A group of gods, (4) Indra or the chief of gods, (5) Sons of Manu. There it some variation in the details of names etc. of these officers in different Puranas. In this Purana also the information about these office-bearers etc. is given in. a rather confusing way that it is somewhat difficult to prepare a tabular statement for each of the Manus with the names of special office-bearers of each category under him even though the information here is more detailed than in other Puranas like VP.

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

They will be Virajas, ArvarTvan, Nirmoka and others. 1 shall mention the nine sons in the other Savarna Manvantaras.

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

Other Savarna Manus will be the future sons of Brahma. They are four, endowed with divine visions such as Merusavarni etc. (or from Merusavarni).

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

They are the grandsons of Daksa, the sons of Kriya, his daughter. They have equipped themselves with great power of penance on the ridge of the Meru. They have great prowess.

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

They are begot by Brahma and others as well as by the intelligent Daksa. On passing away, they go over to Maharloka. They will resort to Meru and become the future Manus.

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

Those persons endowed with dignity and splendour were formerly born in the Caksusa Manvantara. They them- selves will be born in the future Manvantaras.

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

Of those Manus who arc the grandsons of Pracctasa Daksa, five are named Savarnas and four are born of great sages.

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

The entire Earth including the cities and

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

Their detailed description along with that of their

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

They hold offices ofauthority in the Manvantaras (only) once.- After the expiry of the tenure of their office they resort to Maharloka.

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

(?) Ofthem six have passed on and the rest are eight in number. The lord Mann reigns by himself in the case of the previous ones as well in the current one

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

Their details should be known through the example of creation of Vaivasvata Manu, because all of them are neither inferior nor superior to Vivasvan.

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

Due to the multiplicity of repetitions, I shall not recount the details of the future as well as past Manvantaras.

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

Hence the creations in the different families should be understood partially for the realization of their details and proper sequence.

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

The father took his daughter of Brahma. Vairaja (i.e. Brahma), was seated there attended uponby Dharma and Bhava.

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

Brahma spoke to Daksa who was seated near Bhava and Dharma. This, your daughter Suvrata, will pro- create four sons who will be splendid Manus establishing the discipline of the. four castes.

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

Aisvara, Vaku, Varhsa, Rahu and (the othereight) Grahas (planets) should be known as Paras. Understand the others.

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

This (Adbhuta) is Skanda, the son of Parvatl (otherwise known as) Karttikeya and Pavaki. The seven sages in the Rohita Manvantara are Medhatithi of the family of

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

VV. 55-65 give details of the office-bearers, gods, sages etc. of Meru-Savarni who is otherwise known as Daksa-Savarni. Cf. VP. III. 2. 20-23. Our text gives more detailed information about these categories or groups of office-bearers than in VP.

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

Their Indra, it is said, will be the future

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

Although the specific name of this second Savarni is not mentioned here, it is Brahma-savarni. vide verse 81 below. VV. 66-81 stale the names of groups of gods, sages etc. during this tenth Manu Period. In V. 81 this.Manu is called Prajapatya (i.e. Brahma-savarna).

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

These are remembered as the future mental sons of Brahma. Their Indra is Vrsa by name. He will be the future king of Suras.

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

In the twelfth Manvantara Marni will be Rudra's son. The fourth Savarna will be Rudrasavarna. 1 Listen to the Devas during his Manvantara.

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

The future Devas (of this Manvantara) are- said to be of five groups. They are Haritas, Rohitas, Sumanas, Sukarmans and Sutaras.

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

Those thirty-three Devas who have already been mentioned, beginning with Tusita, should be known as Sumanas.

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

The following are the sons of the twelfth Manu viz. — Devavan, Upadeva, Devas re stha, Vidhuratha, Mitravan, Mitrasena, Citrasena, Amitraha, Mitrabahu and Suvarcas.

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

Divaspati of great inherent prowess will become their Indra. The sons ofthe son ofPulaha should be known as Ruci's sons.

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

In the thirteenth Manvantara, the following will be the sons of Manu Raucya. They will be ten (in number). Theyare Gitra-Sena, Vicitra, Naya, Dharma, Dhrta, Bhava, Aneka, Ksatraviddha, Surasa and Nirbhaya.

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

VV. 106-116 state the office-bearers in the regime of the last Manu Bhautya. Our text omits the nameoflndra of this Manvantara. VP. III. 2. 41 informs us that Suci was the Indra then. He seems to be different from Suci, the son of this Manu (in V. 114).

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

After withdrawing (i.e. annihilating) gods, sages, PTtrs and Danavas (demons), god Brahma, on visualizing the end ofhis day at the end of Yuga, verily puts an end to his creation.

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

Persons who know that the day of god Brahma terminates at the end of a thousand sets offour Yugas and that his night ends with a thousand sots of four Yugas are called the conversant ones with the day and night (of god-Brahma).

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

The Pratisaficara (Dissolution awd reabsorption) of all living beings is of three types viz. Naimittika (Periodical), Prakrtika (Pertaining to Prakrti) and the Atyantika (the ultimate one).

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

After stating what happens after the day of god Brahma is over, the author explains the three types of dissolutions viz. Naimittika (Periodical), Prakrtika (Pertaining to Prakrti) and Atyantika (The Ultimate one, resulting from spiritual knowledge) vide VV. 128-132.

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

At the end of a thousand sets of Caturyugas, •when the period of annihilation of the Yuga arrives, the Prajapati (Lord ofthe Subjects i.e. Brahma) begins to make the subjects abide in him (i.e. reabsorb in him). 1

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

Then a continued drought lasting for a hundred years takes place. On account ofit, only those living beings deficient in strength or having very little potentiality on the surface ofthe earth become dissolved and get mingled with the dust.

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

With those rays, the seven suns move up and down. They blaze burning up (everything) like the fire at the close of the Yugas.

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

Kindled by the waters, those suns with thousands of rays envelop the firmament and stay on, burning the Earth.

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

Being burned by their brilliant flames, the Earth including mountains, rivers and oceans becomes bereft of moisture andj/jscidity.

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

Being restrained by those rays ofthe Sun, that burn brightly, that move about in a continuous series and that have variegated colours, the Earth is enveloped entirely, beneath, above and on all sides.

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

VV. 132-178 describe the deluge that pervades the universe after the completion of Brahma's day. The description is common to all Puranas.

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

The multifarious fires of the sun become expanded and augmented and then mingle with one another. They then form a single unit— a single flame.

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

It will be the destroyer of all the worlds. That fire takes a circuitous movement and enveloping the set of four worlds burns it up by means ofits fiery splendour.

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

When everything mobile and immobile becomes dissolved, the Earth devoid of trees and (even) grass may seem like the back of a tortoise.

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

Everything filled with its flames blazes like a solid ball of fire. The entire universe appears like a frying pan.

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

Whatever be the animals and living beings-on the surface ofthe Earth or within the great oceans become annihi- lated and dissolved and turned into dust (ashes).

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

The continents, the mountains, the subcontinents and the great ocean — all these will be reduced to ashes by that universal fire, the soul of everything.

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

The kindled fire resorting to the earth blazes and drinks up water from the seas, rivers, nether worlds completely from all sides.

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

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Increased in its dimensions, this enkindled Sarhvar- taka fire, of terrible form transcends the mountains and planets and annihilates the worlds.

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

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Thereafter, it breaks through the Earth and dries up Rasatala. After burning up Patala completely, it burns up the world ofwind in the end.

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

Some of them are dark in colour like the blue lotus, some resemble the water lilies. Some appear like Vaidurya (Lapis Lazuli). Others resemble Indranlla (blue Sapphire).

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

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Other clouds appear white like conch and jasmine flowers as well as dark like the black pigment. Some clouds are smoke-coloured and some are yellow.

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

Some clouds have a shining lustre like the colour of a donkey. Similarly, some resemble the colour of the lac exuda- tion. Others appear like the Manalisila (Red Arsenic) and other clouds have the colour of doves.

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

Some clouds resemble the glow-worm. Some are

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

Some of the clouds are ofthe size of an excellent city. Some can be compared to herds ofelephants. Some clouds shine like huge mountains. Some clouds appearlike an extensive flat ground.

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

Some clouds resemble the hall ofgames. Some can be compared to shoals offish. The clouds have different forms. They are aweful in appearance and make terrific thundering sound.

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

Then the clouds fill the entire area of the firmament. After that, these clouds, producing terrific rumbling sound group themselves in seven, identifying themselves with the- Suns, and they extinguish the fire. Then those clouds shower rain in huge torrents. They destroy'the whole of extremely terrific and inauspicious fire. With the waters so profusely showered, the universe becomes filled up with it. With its splendour attacked and subdued by the waters, the fire enters into the waters.

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

He has the brilliant complexion of the Sun. He is the protector of the Universe. He is unparalleled, the only one (without a second), the first, quickly overpowerer (of the mighty), a cosmogonic power (lit. born of a golden egg), the Supreme Person, the great one. It is recited (in the scriptures) that he is beyond the quality called Rajas.

हिन्दी अर्थ

चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

At the end of the thousand sets of four Yugas, when all space is flooded with water on all sides, the lord be- comes desirous of sleep. As he does not wish for light, he creates the Night.

हिन्दी अर्थ

चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

When the Night comes to a close, Prajapati wakes up. He becomes induced with a desire to create. He then once again applies his mind to the activity of creation.

हिन्दी अर्थ

चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

When the night becomes dawn, all those living beings are born again from Brahma of unmanifest source of origin.

हिन्दी अर्थ

चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

The Sages, the Manus and the four types of living beings— all these are born again. It is mentioned that even, those Siddhas do have birth and death.

हिन्दी अर्थ

चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

Just as the rising and setting of the Sun in this world happens regularly, so also (it should) be remembered that the birth and death of all living beings are happening; regularly.

हिन्दी अर्थ

चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

When two thousand Caturyugas are completed

हिन्दी अर्थ

चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

A matra has been made equal to a Nimesa (winking of the eye) by a person at leisure. Fifteen winkings of human eyes make one Kaffha.'

हिन्दी अर्थ

चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

(Defective Text) (?) Nine winkings make a Ksana or five winkings make one Ksana, Twenty winkings make one Kastha. Three Kdsflias make one Prastha (?). Seven Prasthas make one udaka (?). One more (i.e. Eight Prasthas) make one Lava, * (?)

हिन्दी अर्थ

चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

It should be known that thirty Lavas make one Kali, Thirty Ka/ds make one Muhurta, Thirty Muhurtas make one day and night. This is the position.

हिन्दी अर्थ

चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

One day and night consists of more than six hundred Ka/as (30 x 30 = 900). These should be known in accordance with the movements of the moon and the Sun.

हिन्दी अर्थ

चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

The units Abhuta -samp lava.

हिन्दी अर्थ

चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

In the same manner thirteen Palas of water con- stitute a Jalaprastha according to Magadha reckoning.

हिन्दी अर्थ

चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

On learning this the sages (become) surprised. They considered it wonderful. Then they sought the knowledge regarding the division of the number of days.

हिन्दी अर्थ

चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

We wish to hear the measurement and calculation according to human reckoning. Let it be brief with very few letters and words. Human calculation alone is in accordance with our opinion.

हिन्दी अर्थ

चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

On hearing their requests, the wind-god engaged in what is beneficial to the worlds, said succinctly as follows

हिन्दी अर्थ

चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

"The night and day (of god Brahma) have been recounted before. I shall calculate the number of days in a year through mundane measure and mention the extent of dura- tion at the close of a day of Brahma.

हिन्दी अर्थ

चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

When the world is flooded with water, when, everything mobile is dissolved and destroyed, when the activity of annihilation is concluded, when Prajapati becomes quiescent, when there is no light, when everything is burnt down and enveloped in the nocturnal darkness and when it is presided over by Tsvara— that is the time when a vast expanse of Sea comes into being. The extent of duration of the vast expanse of Sea is as much as that of the day ofthe lord. The night is the period when there exists the Salila (motionless water). The period when it recedes is remembered as the daytime.

हिन्दी अर्थ

चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

The burning wick of the lamp becomes extinguished by a violent gust of wind. In the same manner Brahma becomes quiescent due to Pratisarga.

हिन्दी अर्थ

चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

Sukarmans, Sutaras, the learned Sahasrada, Parvata, Anuchara, Apashu and Manojava,

हिन्दी अर्थ

चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

Urja, Svaha, Svadha and Tara — these ten are remembered as the Haritas. Tapas, Jnani, Mriti, Varcha and the one remembered as Bandhu,

हिन्दी अर्थ

चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

Rajas, Raja, Svarnapada, Pushti and Vidhi — these ten gods are remembered as the Rohitas.

हिन्दी अर्थ

चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

The gods beginning with the Tushitas are declared to be thirty-three. Know them as the Sumanas; now hear of the Sukarmans.

हिन्दी अर्थ

चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

Suparvan, Vrishabha, Prishta, Kapi, Dyumna, Vipashchit, Vikrama, Krama, Vibhrita and Kanta —

हिन्दी अर्थ

चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

these gods are the Sukarmans; now hear of the Sutaras: Varsha, Divya, Anjishtha, Varchasvin, Dyutiman, Kavi,

हिन्दी अर्थ

चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

Shubha, Havis, Kritaprapti and Vyaprita the tenth — these gods are declared by name as the Sutaras.

हिन्दी अर्थ

चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

Their Indra should be known as the glorious Ritadhaman. Dyuti son of Vasishtha, Sutapas of Atri's line,

हिन्दी अर्थ

चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

Tapomurti of Angiras's line, Tapasvin of Kashyapa's, Taponidhi of Pulastya's and Taporati of Pulaha's,

हिन्दी अर्थ

चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

and the seventh, of Bhrigu's line, should be known as Tapodhriti. These are the perfected Seven Sages in the last Savarnika interval.

हिन्दी अर्थ

चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

Devavan, Upadeva, Devashreshtha, Viduratha, Mitravan, Mitrasena, Chitrasena, Amitraha,

हिन्दी अर्थ

चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

Mitrabahu and Suvarchas are the sons of the twelfth Manu. In the thirteenth turn, in the future Rauchya interval,

हिन्दी अर्थ

चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

three groups of gods have been declared by the Self-born; they are all great-souled mind-born sons of Brahma:

हिन्दी अर्थ

चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

the Sutramans, the Sudharmans and the Sukarmans — these three are declared the future groups of the thirty gods who drink Soma.

हिन्दी अर्थ

चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

The thirty-three deities who are worshipped separately by sacrificers with ghee, with curdled ghee and with the best of cups —

हिन्दी अर्थ

चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

know those thirty-three gods separately. The Sutramans are the Prayaja deities who now partake of ghee;

हिन्दी अर्थ

चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

the Sukarmans are the Anuyaja deities who partake of curdled ghee; the Sudharmans are the Upayajas — so these gods are declared.

हिन्दी अर्थ

चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

Their Indra will be Divaspati of great strength. The sons of Ruchi should be known as sons of Pulaha's offspring.

हिन्दी अर्थ

चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

Dhritiman of Angiras's line, Avyaya of Pulastya's line, Tattvadarshin of Pulaha's line, Nirutsuka of Bhrigu's line,

हिन्दी अर्थ

चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

Nishprakampya of Atri's line, Nirmoha of Kashyapa's and Sutapas of Vasishtha's — these seven belong to the thirteenth interval.

हिन्दी अर्थ

चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

Chitrasena, Vichitra, Naya, Dharma, Dhrita, Bhava, Aneka, Kshatraviddha, Surasa and Nirbhaya — these ten

हिन्दी अर्थ

चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

are the sons of Rauchya Manu in the thirteenth interval. In the fourteenth turn, the interval of Bhautya Manu,

हिन्दी अर्थ

चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

five groups of gods are declared who will be: the Chakshushas, Pavitras, Kanishthas, Bhrajitas

हिन्दी अर्थ

चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

and Vachavriddhas — these are remembered as the five groups of gods. Know the seven musical notes beginning with Nishada as the seven Chakshushas;

हिन्दी अर्थ

चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

the Samans beginning with Brihat are known as the seven Kanishthas; the seven worlds are the Pavitras, and the seven rivers the Bhrajitas;

हिन्दी अर्थ

चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

know the Vachavriddhas as the sages of Svayambhuva Manu. All the Indras of the Manu periods should be known as having similar characteristics.

हिन्दी अर्थ

चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

By splendour, austerity, intellect, strength, learning and valour — whatever beings there are in the three worlds, moving and fixed,

हिन्दी अर्थ

चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

those Indras surpass them all in every respect and in all qualities. There are the joyous ones who deny beings, the neutral ones who affirm beings,

हिन्दी अर्थ

चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

and those who affirm both existence and non-existence; the three Vedas are the authority of those who speak. Agnidhra of Kashyapa's line, the one of Pulastya's line who is Magadha,

हिन्दी अर्थ

चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

Agnibahu of Bhrigu's line, Shuchi of Angiras's line, Shukra of Vasishtha's line, Mukta of Pulaha's line,

हिन्दी अर्थ

चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

and Shvajita of Atri's line are declared; now hear of the sons of Manu: Uru, Guru, Gambhira, Buddha, Shuddha, Shuchi, Kritin,

हिन्दी अर्थ

चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

Urjasvin and Subala — these are the sons of Bhautya Manu. These four Savarna Manus are sons of Brahma;

हिन्दी अर्थ

चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

one, Vaivasvata, is also called Savarna Manu. Rauchya and Bhautya are considered to be of the lines of Pulaha and Bhrigu. During the reign of Bhautya the kalpa is swiftly completed.

हिन्दी अर्थ

चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

Suta said: When all the Manu periods here have been completed,

हिन्दी अर्थ

चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

at the end, when that many-aged period has waned, the dissolution is declared. These seven Bhargava gods, at the end of the Manu period,

हिन्दी अर्थ

चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

having enjoyed the three worlds from their place for seventy-one ages, together with the ancestors and the Manus, when the Manu period has ended —

हिन्दी अर्थ

चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

then this whole three-world universe will be without support. Then the shining abodes of those who dwell in them,

हिन्दी अर्थ

चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

released, fall away, along with the stars, constellations and planets. Then, when those lords of the three worlds have passed away,

हिन्दी अर्थ

चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

they reach the Mahar world where the dwellers of the kalpa live — where the fourteen long-lived groups beginning with the Ajitas are.

हिन्दी अर्थ

चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

Those fourteen gods of all the Manu periods are said to dwell in the Jana world in their bodies, together with their followers.

हिन्दी अर्थ

चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

When the gods have thus passed from the Mahar world to the Jana world, and only the fixed beings remain among the elements,

हिन्दी अर्थ

चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

when the world-regions beginning with Bhuvar are empty and the gods have gone upward to union with the dwellers of the kalpa,

हिन्दी अर्थ

चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

then Brahma, having withdrawn the gods, sages, ancestors and Danavas, sets aside creation, seeing the day end at the close of the ages.

हिन्दी अर्थ

चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

Those who know day and night know that a day of Brahma ends after a thousand four-age cycles, and his night likewise ends after a thousand ages.

हिन्दी अर्थ

चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

The occasional, the elemental and the absolute — thus is the threefold dissolution of all beings.

हिन्दी अर्थ

चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

Brahma's occasional dissolution is the burning at the end of the kalpa; the elemental is the dissolution of the instruments at the re-creation of beings;

हिन्दी अर्थ

चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

and the absolute, arising from knowledge, is declared to be the non-arising of the causes. Then Brahma, having withdrawn the gods who dwell in the three worlds,

हिन्दी अर्थ

चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

strikes and brings about the dissolution of creation again. Wishing to sleep, the Lord Brahma then withdraws the creatures.

हिन्दी अर्थ

चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

Then, at the end of a thousand ages, when the destruction of the ages arrives, that Prajapati resolves to hold the creatures within himself.

हिन्दी अर्थ

चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

Then there is an unbroken drought lasting a hundred years. Through it, the beings of little strength on the surface of the earth

हिन्दी अर्थ

चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

perish right there and turn into earth. The fire, becoming the sun with seven rays, rose up.

हिन्दी अर्थ

चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

The Lord of unbearable rays drinks up the waters with his beams; his seventy blazing rays, tawny in hue,

हिन्दी अर्थ

चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

spread out again and slowly pervade the sky. Earthly fire fed on wood blazes fiercely, and the sun blazes with the waters.

हिन्दी अर्थ

चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

Therefore the sun is said to burn by holding water. The sun does not blaze without rain, nor is it moistened without rain;

हिन्दी अर्थ

चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

without rain it would not enter; the sun blazes with water. Therefore the sun, drinking the waters, blazes in the sky.

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

His seven rays drink water from the great ocean; kindled by that food, they become seven suns.

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

Then those seven rays, become suns in the four directions, blaze as fires and burn this entire fourfold world.

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

With those rays they reach above and below; the seven suns blaze with the heat of the fire at the end of the age.

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

Kindled by the water, with many thousands of rays, they stand covering the whole, burning up the earth.

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

Then, burned by their heat, the earth with its mountains, rivers and oceans becomes utterly dry.

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

With blazing, continuous and brilliant rays of the sun it is hemmed in on all sides, below, above and across.

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

The fires of the suns, growing and mingling with one another, becoming one, form a single flame.

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

That fire, destroyer of all worlds, becoming a circle, swiftly burns this entire fourfold world with its heat.

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

Then, when everything moving and unmoving has perished, the earth, bare of trees and grass, becomes like the back of a tortoise.

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

The whole world appears like a frying pan; filled everywhere with those flames, it blazes densely.

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

The beings on the earth's surface and those in the great ocean then perish and turn into earth.

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

Continents, mountains, regions and the great ocean — that all-consuming fire reduced them all to ashes.

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

The kindled fire, blazing and resting on the earth, drinks the waters from the oceans, rivers and netherworlds everywhere.

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

Then, growing greater, overpassing the mountains and the planets, the blazing, terrible Samvartaka fire destroys the worlds.

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

Then, piercing the earth, it dried up Rasatala; having burned the netherworlds at the end, it burned the world of wind.

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

Having burned the earth below, it burned heaven above; for thousands, millions and hundreds of millions of yojanas

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

the many flames of that Samvartaka rose up. The Gandharvas, Pishachas, great serpents and Rakshasas,

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

and the whole sphere, it then burns, blazing: the Bhur world, the Bhuvar world, the Svar world and Mahar as well.

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

Thus the terrible fire of time burns the four worlds. When those worlds are pervaded by fire across and above,

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

this whole world, slowly reached by that heat, then appears like a ball of iron.

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

Then, shaped like herds of elephants and adorned with lightning, the terrible Samvartaka clouds rise in the sky.

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

Some are dark as blue lotuses, some like white water-lilies, some like beryl, others like sapphire,

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

others like conch and jasmine, or like fine collyrium; some clouds are smoke-coloured, some rain-clouds yellow,

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

some the colour of donkeys, some like lac juice, others like red arsenic, and clouds the colour of doves;

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

some like the cochineal insect, others like yellow orpiment, some like the feathers of the blue jay — such clouds rise in the sky.

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

Some shaped like fine cities, some like herds of elephants, some like mountains, some clouds like level ground,

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

some like pleasure-houses, some like shoals of fish — many-formed, terrible in form, roaring with dreadful sounds.

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

Then all the clouds fill the expanse of the sky. Then those clouds, of terrible roar and born of the sun,

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

enveloped in seven layers, quench that fire. Then those clouds pour down rain like a great flood,

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

and destroy the very terrible, inauspicious fire entirely. With the torrential rain the world is filled with water.

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

The fire, overpowered by the waters, then enters the waters. When the fire is gone, the clouds born of fire, having rained,

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

flood the whole world with great streams of water, filling it with torrents as they are impelled by the Self-born.

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

Others with floods of water overrun the shoreline; the water, having covered the mountains and the regions between the continents, remains.

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

Again it falls on the earth, and the clouds on the vault of the sky; the terrible wind encircles the heavens on every side.

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

In that terrible single ocean, when all moving and unmoving things have perished, after a full thousand ages the kalpa is said to be complete.

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

When the world is covered with water, the wise call it the single ocean; then earth, water, sky and wind are one ocean.

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

When the fire has gone out and all has become dark, nothing whatever can be discerned. The waters of earth, of the ocean and of heaven, everywhere,

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

no longer flowing, come to oneness and take the name of 'salila'. Because it comes and goes, that water is then called 'salila'.

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

That water, called the ocean (arnava), covers this earth. Because it shines (abhati) with its lustre — the root 'bha' meaning pervasion and shining —

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

and reaches all as ash (bhasma), it is therefore called 'ambhas'. In the sense of diversity and swiftness the root 'ar' is used;

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

but in the single ocean it is not swift, hence the waters are called 'nara'. At the end of that thousand ages, when Brahma's day has passed,

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

the world remains a single ocean for that same length of time. Then all the activities of Prajapati cease.

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

In that single ocean, when moving and unmoving things have perished, Brahma then becomes thousand-eyed and thousand-footed —

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

thousand-headed, benevolent, thousand-footed, thousand-eyed and thousand-mouthed, thousand-voiced, thousand-armed, the first Prajapati, the Person said to consist of the threefold Veda,

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

sun-coloured, protector of the world, unprecedented, the one, the first, the victorious; Hiranyagarbha, the great Person, is proclaimed as beyond passion.

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

At the end of a thousand four-age cycles, when all is flooded with water, the Lord, wishing to sleep and to be unmanifest, makes night.

हिन्दी अर्थ

चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

When all four kinds of creatures lie dissolved, the seven great sages behold that great soul, Time; they dwell in the Jana world, having gained vision through austerity —

हिन्दी अर्थ

चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

the great souls beginning with Bhrigu, whose characteristics were described earlier.

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

With their vision they behold the seven worlds beginning with Satya, and they always behold Brahma during the nights of Brahma.

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

The Seven Sages behold the time of sleep during his nights. Because he is supreme among the kalpas, he is called the first.

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

He is the creator of all beings again and again at the beginnings of the kalpas. Having thus lain down within himself, Prajapati,

हिन्दी अर्थ

चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

of great splendour and maker of all, having taken everything into himself, then spends the night in the darkness, in the waters of the single ocean.

हिन्दी अर्थ

चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

Then, when the night ends, Prajapati awakens; his mind joined with the wish to create, he sets himself again to creation.

हिन्दी अर्थ

चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

Thus when the world has ceased and Prajapati is at rest, in that occasional dissolution of Brahma,

हिन्दी अर्थ

चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

the separation of beings from their bodies is remembered as complete. Then, when all beings have been burned by the rays of the sun,

हिन्दी अर्थ

चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

and the best of gods, sages and Manus are in that flood of waters, all beings from the Gandharvas down to the Pishachas,

हिन्दी अर्थ

चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

unburned at the beginning of the kalpa, take refuge in the Jana world. Those that had gone to animal births or to hell

हिन्दी अर्थ

चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

are then also burned, their sins wholly shaken off; they remain in the water as long as the world is flooded.

हिन्दी अर्थ

चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

When the night has dawned, all those beings are born again completely from Brahma, whose source is the unmanifest —

हिन्दी अर्थ

चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

sages, Manus, gods and all four kinds of creatures. Even for the perfected ones, death and birth are declared.

हिन्दी अर्थ

चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

As the rising and setting of the sun are known in this world, so the birth and cessation of beings are seen here.

हिन्दी अर्थ

चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

Therefore existence until the dissolution of beings is called samsara. As all beings are born here in the rainy seasons,

हिन्दी अर्थ

चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

so, by rule, creatures beginning with the unmoving ones are born in kalpa after kalpa. As the marks of the seasons appear in various forms in their turn,

हिन्दी अर्थ

चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

so the same beings are seen again in the days and nights of Brahma. At withdrawal and at emission, the moving and the fixed,

हिन्दी अर्थ

चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

creatures go out from and enter into Prajapati in due time — Brahma, all beings, the great yogin, the great Lord.

हिन्दी अर्थ

चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

He is the creator of all beings again and again at the beginnings of the kalpas; manifest and unmanifest is Mahadeva, and this whole world is his.

हिन्दी अर्थ

चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

As waters, once created, flow first along a certain course on this earth and thereafter keep flowing by that same course, so do beings go to heaven.

हिन्दी अर्थ

चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

Turning again and again in the same places through good and evil deeds, mortals, shaped by their former bodies, move upward and downward under the sun's sway.

हिन्दी अर्थ

चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

The gods, Manus, lords of creatures, and other perfected beings who have gone to heaven, shaped by that and governed by fame and dharma, come into being again at the next creation.

हिन्दी अर्थ

चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

Next I shall tell of time up to the dissolution of beings. The Manu periods, O twice-born, have been described by me,

हिन्दी अर्थ

चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

fourteen of them, with the creation of creatures and with the gods; all those intervals together amount to a thousand ages.

हिन्दी अर्थ

चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

Two full thousands of these make what is specially called a kalpa. This should be known as a day of Brahma; hear its reckoning.

हिन्दी अर्थ

चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

A measure equal to a twinkling is made by an instant; fifteen blinks of the human eye are remembered as a kashtha.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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English

Nine kshanas and five, twenty kashthas make three of those; a prastha with seven measures of water and a little more is remembered as a lava.

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

Thirty lavas should be known as a kala, and thirty kalas make a muhurta; thirty muhurtas make a day and night — such is the rule.

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

A day and night has somewhat more than six hundred kalas; these numbers should be understood according to the motion of the moon and sun.

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

Fifteen blinks make a kashtha; thirty kashthas a kala; thirty kalas a muhurta; a kala is remembered as a tenth part.

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

Forty-five kalas are termed a muhurta; muhurtas and lavas have been determined by those who know measures.

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

Likewise by this, thirteen palas of water; a prastha of water is fixed by the Magadha measure.

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

Four such prasthas of water make a nalika, with a hole made by four gold mashas of four finger-breadths' length.

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

In day and night alike, a muhurta is two nalikas; this is constant in all of these by the particular motion of the sun.

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

What is reckoned as more than six hundred kalas should be known as the human day; the sidereal day is ten more.

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

By the civil measure this human year is remembered; this is a divine day and night — such is the conclusion of the scriptures.

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

The reckoning by days of months, seasons, half-years and years — this knowledge is thus fixed and indicated by its terms.

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

The measure of kalas is called kala. What is declared as a day of Brahma is remembered as a divine crore.

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

Hundreds and thousands multiplied by ten and doubled, and ninety thousand, and the others as well.

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

Hearing this, the sages, filled with supreme wonder, then earnestly asked about the knowledge of reckoning numbers.

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

The sages said: We wish to hear the measure of the period of dissolution in human reckoning, in brief, in plain words.

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

Hearing them, the lord Vayu, devoted to the welfare of the world, spoke briefly by virtue of his divine vision.

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

These nights and days in the world of men were described earlier. Now I shall tell their number, the total of years at the end of Brahma's day.

हिन्दी अर्थ

चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

Four hundred crores of human years, and thirty-two crores, have been counted by the twice-born;

हिन्दी अर्थ

चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

and likewise eighty-nine hundred thousand and eighty thousand more — this is the period of the flood.

हिन्दी अर्थ

चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

This is the period until the dissolution of beings, reckoned in human terms. When those worlds are burned by the seven suns, all four kinds of creatures dissolve into the great elements.

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

When the world is flooded with water and all moving and unmoving things have perished,

हिन्दी अर्थ

चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

when the withdrawal is complete and Prajapati is at rest, when all is lightless, burned and covered by the darkness of night,

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

governed by the Lord, the single ocean then remains; it should be known as the single ocean for as long as the Lord's day lasted.

हिन्दी अर्थ

चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

The night is the state of water; at its cessation it is remembered as day. Thus his day and night revolve in turn.

हिन्दी अर्थ

चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

This dissolution of beings is remembered as the day and night of the Lord. All the beings in the three worlds, moving and fixed,

हिन्दी अर्थ

चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

dissolve into the elements; hence it is called the dissolution of beings. The creatures past, present and future

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

are counted in divine reckoning, multiplied by the Apararddha. A Parardha doubled is declared to be the supreme lifespan.

हिन्दी अर्थ

चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

Such is the duration here of the unborn Prajapati; at the end of his duration comes the re-dissolution of Brahma, the supreme one.

हिन्दी अर्थ

चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

As the flame of a lamp is extinguished by a gust of wind, so Brahma is extinguished by the re-dissolution.

हिन्दी अर्थ

चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

Likewise, when the great Lord has reabsorbed everything beginning with Mahat, Mahat dissolves into the unmanifest, and then there is equilibrium of the qualities.

हिन्दी अर्थ

चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

Thus I have told you of the dissolution of beings. This is Brahma's occasional dissolution, the cleansing and withdrawal. It has been told in brief; what more shall I describe?

हिन्दी अर्थ

चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

Whoever always keeps this in mind or hears it repeatedly, recites it or describes it, attains great perfection.