Book 3 - Adhyaya 2

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Special holy rites have been duly performed by persons ofacute discernment and of extraordinary habits and practices, with the residue ofwhat is consigned to the sacred fire in the form of Homa and also with other things.

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VV. 239-243 describe what happens when the life of god Brahma terminates.

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Although the title ofthe chapter leads to believe that it must be a description only of Siva-loka (the region of Siva), it is a description of Bhuvana-koia or different regions (lokas) constituting the universe. Siva's region comrs at the end.

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"Only fourteen Sth&nas (abodes) have been created by the great sages. They are those that are called Lokas 1 (Worlds) where men stay.

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They say that Seven of them are Krtas and Seven are Akrtas. The seven worlds beginning with Bhuh and ending with Satya are the Krtas.

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The Akrtas are only seven. They are the abodes that are Prakrtas (evolved by Prakrti). These Sth&nas have been

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VV. 8-40 describe the seven worlds viz 1. Bhur, 2. Bliuvas, 3. Svar,

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Maliar (in details) 5. Jana, 6. Tapas and 7. Satya. These seven are called krtas. The location of 1-4 is (1) The earth, (2) The space between the earth and the sun, (3) The space between the sun and Dhruva (The Polar Star) •(4) the space between Dhruva and Jana-loka is Mahar-loka (V V. 39-40). VV. 22-25 explain the terms jfana-loka (causing birth of people like Manu), Tapas (Region for performers of Penance) and Satya ( = SaUamatra, - of pure existence, the region of Brahma).

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Jana, Tapa and Satya — These three worlds are Ekintikas (exclusive ones). They remain steady till the Prasam - yama (Ultimate Re-absorption).

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Due to the utterance of Mahar the Maharloka came into existence. The abode of the Devas whose tenure of office has come to an end is there.

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The sages Arigirases resort to the Bhuvarloka. Those persons i.e. the Devas who reside in the constellations and planets are (called) Vaimdnikas.

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The worlds having Bhurloka as the first and Mahar as the last, are proclaimed thus. Those seven Suryas (at the time of ultimate dissolution) burn all those worlds by means of their flames.

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(Defective Text) The sixth world viz. Tapas is the world remembered as the place causing return of all the fourteen Manus in the course of Manvantaras including those of Savarnas.

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The space between Dhruva and the Jana Loka is called Maharloka.

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Their mental achievement should be known as very pure on account of mutual interaction.

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All those groups (ofDevas) Yama and others who reside in Mahar loka resort to Janaloka itself when the Maharloka is ablaze and "burnt up.

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

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All those who are the inhabitants of that place are persons with subtle bodies. These (Yama and others) acquire the same ability or equal potentiality as the inhabitants (of Janaloka) and they are equipped with a physical form similar to that of those persons.

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

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In VV. 47-68, Vayu describes how gods etc. resort to Janaloka when Maharloka suffers from the samvartaka fire at the end of the world. He states how the time is endless; and how in the same process ofthe same gods, sages etc? taking re-incarnation time continues (ad infinitum).

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

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When a Kalpa ofVairajaka (i.e. pertaining to Brahma) passes by in the world of Brahma, the Vairaja (? Brahma) allots the SthSna in the Avyakta (Unmanifest one) Thus they (Devas etc.) in accordance with the posteriority and priority obtaining in the "Brahmaloka resort to the Vairajalokas after going and returning ten times.

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They abide in the body of Brahma from which it is impossible to return. After reaching that world full of meditation, they attain the Supreme Bliss of Brahman. 1 Thereby they gain immortality.

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

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VV. 77-89 descibc the condition of the persons who reach Satya (= Brahma) Loka. This Purana supports the state of Liberation described in Brahma Sutras IV. 4.17-21 in that the Liberated soul has all the advantages and specialities of Brahma except his power to create the world etc (vide VV. 80-83).

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Thus the Devas and Sages partake of i.e. worship

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They are Urdhvareras (those who have sublimated their sexual energy). They do not have anything which can slay them again (i.e. they are deathless). Their faith evolved J}y_rerjeated holy rites s indicated in the Vedantas (Upanisads

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There, they engage themselves in the practice of Yogic union (with the Supreme Brahman). They worship the highest goal. They abandon their physical body, the cause of all sins and proceed ahead for their immortality.

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

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The main numbers are one, ten, hundred and thousand. All numbers till thousand should be understood. Ten Sahasras (thousands) make one Ayuta.

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

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Learned men say that a thousand Kofis make a Kharva. They know that ten thousand crores make a JVikharva.

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

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A thousand thousand Kofis multiplied by ten, is called Samudra (or Jafadhi) by persons well-versed in reckoning.

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A hundred thousand multiplied by a thousand' Kofis is called Autya. A million multiplied by a thousand crores is called Madhya.

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

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The countable and the uncountable are always based on Tantras (Scientific Treatises). The countable is observed through numbers. It is spoken ofupto Parardha.

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On hearing their utterance full of humility, Matari- svan (the Wind-god) uttered the following sweet words (ex- plaining everything) in the proper order and in the manner seen by him.

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

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In VV. 115 ff Vayu states the units ofmeasuring distance to deter- mine how long was the world of Brahma (from this world). The distances and locations of the Sun and other Planets (VV. 129-135) are imaginary though supported in other Purana works. W. 138-145 state the distance and locations ofthe higher worlds like Maharloka and others.

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4. 2.1 16-125

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There are ten parts of the Mahat. The gross part is called Bhutadi (i.e. Ahamkdra or Cosmic Ego). The magnitude of Bhutadi is more than a tenth part (?).

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

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Eight Balagras make one Liksa (the egg of a louse). Eight Liksds make one Tuka (a louse). They call the combina- tion of eight Yukds one Tava (a grain of barley). Eight Tavas make one Arigula (finger- breadth).

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Twelve Ahgulaparvans (finger-joints or finger-breadths il called a Vitasti (a span). It should be known that twentyone finger breadths make one Ratni (a cubit) (the distance between the elbow and the closed fist).

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Twentyfour Angulas make one Hasta (cubit — the distance between the elbow and the tip of the middle finger). Two Ratns or forty two Angulas, it should be known, make one Kisku.

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Two thousand Dhanus units make one Gavyuti. Eight thousand Dhanus units make one Tojana.

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The entire stellar zone shines a full hundred thousand Yojanas above the moon.

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The distance between the planets above the stellar zone is two hundred thousand Yojanas. Each of these worlds (planets) is so much above the one below.

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

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The planet Budha (Mercury) moves beneath all the stars and planets. Sukra (Venus) moves above this. Lohita (Mars) is above that.

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All the Narakas are situated under the jurisdiction of Yama. They are of Tamasa quality. Persons ofevil deeds fall in them severally.

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VV. 146-195 deal with seven hells, the tortures therein and the sins that. lead to them.

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The slayer of a Brahmana, one who drinks liquor and a person who steals gold sinks into the hell Sukara. A person who kills a Ksatriya as well as one who kills a Vaisya will fall into the hell Tala.

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

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He who transgresses the bounds of morality and established moral law' falls into the terrible hell of Vimoha. He who performs sacrificial rites for causing barm to other persons falls into the hell Kit a loll a.

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

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A person inimical to gods and Brahmanas, a person who does not honour elders and preceptors and he who con- taminates gems and jewels goes over to the hell Krmibhaksa.

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

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He who alone and by himself eats the food without offering the same to Branmanas and friends shall pass on to the foul-smelling hell Lalabhaksa and stay there.

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

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The manufacturer of arrows, the potter, the person who takes away gold coins, the person who is a professional physician and he who sets fire to a garden — all these fall into the hell Visarhsana.

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

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He who takes monetary gifts from evil men, he who performs sacrifices on behalf of those who are ineligible and unworthy of them, and he who maintains himself through the stars (i.e. astrologer) — these pass on to the hell Adhomukha ( Adhahsiras).

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A person who sells milk, liquor, salt, lac, scents, sweet juices, gingelly seeds — and other similar articles shall fall in the terrible hell named Puyavaha.

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

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The shepherds who chop off (trees in the) foresta are butchered by means of saws and scissors by awfully terrible hunters of deer (when they fall) into the, hell Asipatra.

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

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A person who gives up the life of a religious mendi- cant (and relapses in the old bad ways of life) falls into the hell Agnijvala. They are devoured by crows that have beaks of iron and that are of dark and variegated colours.

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

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A person falls into the hell called Sandarhsa due to his failure in observing the holy rites of performance of sacrifice (isfa) and of purta i.e. doing works of public charity (like dig- ging of wells, construction of gardens etc.)

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

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Those who act contrarily to the rules of the castes

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The awfully terrible and great hell of fiery nature named Raurava is situated above. It is remembered that the dreadful hell of very chilly atmosphere is beneath it.

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

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Understand that the hells being described (subse- quently) arc of this nature and order. Only seven hells are recounted as situated beneath the Earth.

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

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They are Andhatamisra and so on, the result of all evils. Raurava is the first among them. It is Maharaurava

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

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Those hells are connected (with one another) from above as well as from below. They are remembered as devoid of illumination. There is "excess ofmisery in all of them on account of sin.

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

English

Earthly worms that are procreated by means of seminal effusion constitute a thousandth part of the number of immobile beings.

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

English

All the aquatic animals together constitute a thou- sandth part of the worms procreated by means of seminal effusion. Let this be understood decisively.

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

English

It should be understood that birds constitute a thousandth part ofthe living beings dwelling in water. All of them belong to this world.

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

English

Animals, the quadrupeds of the world are equal to a thousandth part ofthe number of birds.

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

English

Bipeds are reckoned as constituting a thousandth part of the number of quadrupeds. Righteous persons are reckoned as constituting a thousandth part ofbipeds.

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

English

VV. 198-210 contain the Furanic notion about the population of different kinds of species in this Brahmanda. The reply to the question of sages in. VV. 196-197 is imaginary from our point of view but people seriously believed in these figures in Puranic times.

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

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In front of the world of Brahma and beneath the Anda of Brahma, in between these two, there is a divine city free from illness and unhappiness. It is Manomaya (mental in nature).'

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

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VV. 233b-245 constitute a poetic description of the city of Siva and VV. 249-259 describe the holy residents who dwell there. It is a Puranic description of the types of Liberation called Salokata, Sarupata, Samipata.

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Its internal extent, O excellent Brahmanas, is a hundred thousand Yojanas. It is stationed in the Earthly zone.

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

English

On hearing this, the ascetics and the sages of Naimisa forest cried out. As they had some doubts, they spoke these words to the Wind-god.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

"Who are those noble-souled followers of Bhava (God Siva) who very much deserve to be blessed and who rejoice very well in that excellent city?"

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

On hearing the speech of the sages Vayu spoke these words: —

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

They have attained identity and similarity with the form of Bhava, the excellent state of equality with the lord. All of them are Vaisvdnara-Mukhas (having the god of fire for their mouths). They have the cosmic form and {the matted

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

They are blue-throated and white-necked. They have three eyes and sharp curved teeth. The crescent-moon makes them a fine turban and they wear matted hair as though it were a crown.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

All those heroes have ten arms. They have the sweet smell of the interior of a lotus. All of them shine like the mid-day sun. All of them wear yellow robes.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

All of them hold the Pinaka bow in their hands. They have the white bulls as vehicles. They are endowed

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

That lord said — "What else shall 1 explain to you? O sages of holy rites, I shall recount whatever should be narrated by me."

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

When Vayu has already described the Abhuta-sampiava (world-end) which destroys worlds like Bhur, Bhuvah etc, sages naturally want to know the fate ofthe residents of Siva's city at that time. The author wants to establish the greatness of Mahesvara. He replies that they ultimately enter in Him who is the Subtlest Anu. This shows the influence ofVaisesikas on the author. Historical teachers of the Sankhya School, Kapila, Asuri, Panca£ikha are elevated like the sages Sanaka, Sanandana etc.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

Then they cross the river of worldly existence, having a great whirlpool with births and deaths for its waters. Then they perceive the greatest, undivided and indivisible.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

Joined with Visnu, he creates once again the seven worlds and the five elements. Thereafter, he annihilates them too.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

The seven continents, seven oceans, seven worlds along with the mountains — everything having water for its covering becomes merged in Jyotis (the Fire-element).

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

The Taijasa (Fiery) covering gets merged in Maruta (Wind), the Vdyavya (gaseous) covering gets merged in Akdsa (Ether).

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

VV. 293-297 describe the process of involution of the universe in the Sarikhya (-Vedantic) way; Avyakta and Brahma are the causes of 'annihilation and extension'.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

The covering ofthe sky merges with Bhutadi (Cosmic Ego). The Mahat (Great Principle), the characteristic feature of which is the intellect, swallows Bhutadi (the source of Bhutas).

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

The Unmanifest one swallows Mahat. Beyond that there is Gmasdmya (the equilibrium of the Gunas). The Avyakta and Brahma are thus the causes of annihilation and extension.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

They say that the Avyakta (Unmanifest one) is Ksetra and Brahma is called Ksetrajna. 1 Their Union is with- out a beginning but is caused by Sddharmya (similarity of characteristics) and Vaidharmya (dissimilarity of characteristics).

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

Thus, O Brahmanas, in the activities ofcreation, the K$etrajna should be known. The knower of Brahman also should be known separately, through the knowledge of Ksetra.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

The state of being or not being the object of knowl- edge ofthe Ksetra and Ksetrajna is remembered. Brahma should be known as Avisaya (non-object) and Ksetra is called Visaya: (object).

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

The Ksetra presided over by Ksetrajna, they say,, is for the sake of Ksetrajna. Since the bodies are many, the embodied one (soul) is remembered as manifold.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

W. 300-312 discuss the topic Ksetra and ' Ksetrajna and conclude that the self-born being brings about dissolution (of the universe) through Prakrti.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

He who abides by the discipline and conduct of life based on the castes and stages of life and listens to the narration ofthis Pratisarga (dissolution) shall attain the status ofhaving the same world as siva. He will be endowed with devotion and be free from ailments.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

Or he will be attaining the status of being the leader of Ganas i.e. groups of Siva's attendants of all-time duration.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

On being served and resorted to on the Earth, Bhava becomes the bestower of boons to men."

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

Suta said: Hear from me the reckoning of the Parardha and of the Para.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

In counting there is one, ten, a hundred and a thousand; up to a thousand is to be known; ten thousand is an ayuta.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

A hundred thousand is called a niyuta by the wise; likewise ten hundred thousand is called a prayuta.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

Likewise ten thousand ayutas is called a koti; ten kotis is an arbuda, and a hundred kotis is known as an abja.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

A thousand kotis the wise call a kharva; ten thousand kotis they know as a nikharva.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

A hundred thousand kotis is termed a shanku; a thousand thousand kotis is called a padma.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

Thousands of thousands of kotis, multiplied again by ten, those who know numbers call a samudra.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

A niyuta of thousands of kotis is termed antya; a prayuta of thousands of kotis is designated madhya.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

A thousand crores of crores is called a Parardha; the Parardha doubled the wise call Para.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

A hundred they call parivridha, a thousand paripadmaka; after that are known ayuta, niyuta and prayuta,

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

arbuda, nyarbuda and kharbuda, then kharva, nikharva, shanku and padma,

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

samudra, antya, madhya, parardha and then para. Thus there are these eighteen places in the method of counting.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

One should know those beginning with a hundred as named by the great sages. In the reckoning of kalpas, the Parardha is remembered as Brahma's.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

An equal period remains for him, and at its end he comes to rest. Thus the Para and the Parardha have been counted by me in number.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

Because his valour is supreme, his lifespan supreme, his austerity supreme, his power supreme, his dharma supreme, his knowledge supreme, his steadfastness supreme,

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

supreme Brahman, supreme wisdom and supreme lordship — therefore there is no being higher than Brahma.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

Established in the supreme, he is supreme in all matters, beyond all else. Brahma is reckoned as Para, and half of it is the Parardha.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

The countable and the uncountable are always technical terms; the countable is what is seen by number and is expressed up to the Apararddha.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

When a heap is seen and there is no number, that is the mark of the uncountable; the endlessness seen in grains of sand is otherwise indefinable.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

That reckoning is made by the lords with divine vision owing to their purity; thus, being established in knowledge, one sees everything as Brahman.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

Hearing this, all those ascetics of the Naimisha forest, their eyes brimming with tears and their voices choked with joy,

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

all those expounders of Brahman asked Matarishvan: "O Lord, how far away is the world of Brahma, O master?

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

It is reckoned by yojanas; we wish to hear truly how a yojana is measured and the measure of a krosha."

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

Hearing their words, Matarishvan humbly spoke sweet words, as he had seen it, in due order.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

Vayu said: I shall tell you this; hear what I have to say. From the unmanifest, the manifest portion, the Mahat, is described as gross.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

The Bhutadi is said to be ten parts of the Mahat and gross; the measure of the Bhutadi exceeds it by ten parts.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

The atom is very subtle, grasped by the mind and not by the eye; what is most indivisible in the world should be known as like an atom.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

The subtle mote seen in sunlight coming through a lattice — that is declared the atom, the first of measures.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

When eight atoms come together, it is called a trasarenu; that is also called lotus-dust.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

Eight trasarenus are remembered as a ratharenu; eight of those together the wise call the tip of a hair.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

Eight hair-tips make a liksha, eight likshas a louse, eight lice are called a barley-grain, and eight barley-grains a finger-breadth.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

Twelve finger-breadths make a vitasti; a ratni should be known as twenty-one finger-breadths.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

Twenty-four finger-breadths make a hasta; a kishku, two ratnis, should be known as forty-two finger-breadths.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

Ninety-six finger-breadths the wise call a dhanus; this dhanus is remembered as the unit in reckoning a gavyuti.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

A nali is equal to two dhanu-dandas with the same finger-breadths; three hundred dhanus is called a nalva by those who know numbers.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

Two thousand dhanus are taught as a gavyuti; eight thousand dhanus make a yojana.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

By this dhanus the yojana is completed. A thousand of these should be known as the distance of Shakra's krosha.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

This is the reckoning of yojanas by those skilled in counting. By this measure of yojanas, hear the distance to Brahma's world.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

The sun is a hundred thousand yojanas above the surface of the earth; the moon is a hundred thousand above the sun.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

A full hundred thousand yojanas above the moon, the entire circle of the asterisms shines.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

That hundred thousand, doubled again, is the interval of each planet above the circle of the asterisms.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

Below all the star-planets moves Mercury; above it moves Venus, and above that Mars;

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

above that Jupiter, and above that Saturn. A hundred thousand yojanas above Saturn

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

the entire circle of the Seven Sages shines. A hundred thousand above the sages is described

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

the one who, in a small divine starry chariot, is the son of Uttanapada, Dhruva, the pivot in the sky.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

This height of the three worlds has been explained by me in yojanas. In the Manu periods, the worship of the gods that is performed in the world

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

by the classes and stages of life proceeds in this world; it is remembered as the cause of the sustenance of all divine orders.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

The three worlds have been explained; hear now what lies beyond. Above Dhruva is the Mahar world, where the dwellers of the kalpa live,

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

one crore of yojanas away, as it is determined. Two crores beyond the Mahar world is the Jana world,

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

where the sons of Brahma, Daksha and the other perfected ones, are remembered to dwell,

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

where the Vairaja gods dwell, free from the burning of beings. The distance from the Tapas world to the Satya world is remembered as six times as great.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

That is called Brahma's world, named Apunarmaraka, where those who worship Brahma never fall again.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

One crore and fifty niyutas of yojanas beyond Brahma's world is remembered as the upper part of the cosmic egg.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

Fourteen crores and fifty-six niyutas is its upward extent, remembered as the furthest limit of movement.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

The summit above Dhruva has been explained in yojanas as heard. I shall now tell the arrangement of the places of beings who go downward,

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

where living beings of terrible deeds go through their actions: the hells Raurava, the terrible Shukara and Tala,

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

Taptakumbha, Mahajvala, Shabala and Vimohana, Krimi, Krimibhaksha, Lalabhaksha and Vishasana,

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

Adhahshiras, Puyavaha and Rudhirandha, the hell strewn with excrement and that strewn with urine,

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

the Vaitarani, Krishna, the Asipatravana, the very terrible Agnijvala, Sandamsha and Shvabhojana,

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

Tamas, Kalasutra, Loha and Abhija, Apratishtha and Avichi — such are the hells.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

All these dark hells lie in Yama's domain, into which evil-doers fall here, each separately.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

All of them, beginning with Raurava, are declared to be below the earth. Into Raurava falls the false witness and the one who falsely accuses,

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

the man who is partisan and cruel. Into Shukara sinks one who is a thief, a cow-killer, a killer of embryos, one who sets fire to a city,

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

a slayer of a brahmin, a drinker of liquor and a stealer of gold. Into Tala falls the slayer of a kshatriya, and one who has killed a vaishya sinks there.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

One who commits the killing of a brahmin, one who violates his teacher's bed, and the royal soldier likewise go to Taptakumbha;

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

there is tormented the merchant, the guardian of wealth who misuses it, the seller of a chaste woman, and one who abandons a devoted dependant.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

Into Mahajvala goes one who approaches his daughter or daughter-in-law; those who sell the Veda and those who defile the Veda,

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

who despise their teachers and strike them with arrows of words, and the man who approaches forbidden women, go to the hell Shabala.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

One who breaks the bounds of propriety falls into terrible Vimoha; one who performs evil sacrifices goes to Kidaloha.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

One who hates gods and brahmins, who does not honour his elders, or who spoils gems, goes to Krimibhaksha.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

One who eats food alone without brahmins and friends goes to the foul-smelling hell Lalabhaksha and remains there.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

The arrow-maker, the potter, the stealer of coins, the physician and one who sets fire to a garden fall into Vishasana.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

One who accepts gifts from the wicked, one who sacrifices for those unfit, and one who lives by astrology go to Adhomukha.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

One who sells milk, liquor, salt, lac, perfumes, juices, sesame and the like falls into terrible Puyavaha.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

One who confines cocks, cats, pigs, birds, deer and goats also goes to that hell.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

The keeper of goats and sheep, the buffalo-keeper, the oil-presser, the brahmin who lives by the stage, one who sacrifices for a whole village,

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

the house-burner, the poisoner, one who eats from vessels, the seller of Soma, the drinker of liquor, the eater of meat and the killer of animals,

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

the butcher of buffaloes and the like, the hunter of deer, one who breaks the sacred days, the informer, and one who kills a friend —

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

these fall into Rudhirandha, so the wise declare. Those who cheat one seated in a row to eat

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

fall into the terrible hell Vidbhuja; there is no doubt of this. The man who speaks falsely and the inauspicious reviler —

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

that sinner falls into the terrible hell strewn with urine. Men who rob honey-gatherers go to the Vaitarani.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

The mad, those broken in mind, those devoid of purity and good conduct, the wrathful, those who cause pain and the deceitful go to Krishna.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

Those who cut down forests and the shepherds are cut to pieces in Asipatravana by very cruel hunters.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

Those who have fallen from their stage of life fall into Agnijvala, and are devoured there by dark and spotted crows with iron beaks.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

Through neglect of sacrifices, public works and vows, one falls into the hell Sandamsha; so do vowed celibates who spill their seed in daytime sleep,

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

and those who are taught by their sons or commanded by their sons — they all go to the hell Shvabhojana.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

Those who act against the order of classes and stages of life, filled with anger and exultation — all such dwell in hell.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

Above lies the great, terrible, hot Raurava; below it is remembered the very cruel, cold Tapas.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

Hear them described in this order: seven hells are declared to lie below the earth,

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

the offspring of adharma, beginning with Andhatamisra. Raurava is the first of them, and Maharaurava;

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

below this again is another, remembered as the cold Tapas; the third is Kalasutra, remembered as the great serpent of many kinds;

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

the fourth is Apratishtha, the fifth is remembered as Avichi, the sixth is Loha, and the seventh is Avidheya.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

Raurava is so called because it is terrible; it is hot and burning. The very cruel cold one below it is the lowly Tapas.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

Kalasutra is declared extremely cruel, cutting everything; in Apratishtha there is no standing, and there is ever whirling.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

Avichi is declared cruel because of crushing by machines; hence Loha is very cruel, because of the resort of actions there.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

Because of the nature of the bodies there it is remembered as Avidheya; it is marked by pain, bondage and killing without remedy.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

They are joined above and below and are remembered as lightless; in all of them the intensity of suffering is caused by adharma. Those two lightless ones meet the upper worlds; and the hell-beings there have bodies the size of towers,

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

born at once through their actions, able to experience the fruits; fierce, extreme suffering is remembered in all of them.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

Born at once through their actions, able to experience the fruits; fierce, extreme suffering is remembered in all of them.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

The torments of the hell-beings are likewise remembered as countless. There suffering is experienced, and when the karma is exhausted, again

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

at last they are born in animal wombs through the remainder of their karma. The gods and stars are situated above and below.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

Through dharma and adharma, bodies are born at once; birth for the sake of experience comes from karma that brings about such births.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

The gods see the hell-beings as facing downward and going down; and the hell-beings see all the gods as facing downward too.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

Because the two are equal and their supports are by nature alike, there is no above and below in the Lokaloka.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

This natural designation prevails in the Lokaloka. Then the brahmins performing the sacrificial session again spoke to Vayu.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

The sages said: Of all beings dwelling in the Lokaloka, as many living creatures as wander here in samsara —

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

count them and tell us of them completely. Hearing the sages' words, the Wind spoke.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

Vayu said: It cannot be known by divine vision or by knowledge, nor can it be counted by the eye, nor is there an end to them, O twice-born.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

Because they cannot be conceived and are immeasurable, the question cannot be answered. But hear what has been designated by Brahma in number.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

Whatever is the thousandth part of the unmoving beings here, that many are the earthly worms, which arise from moisture and the like.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

All aquatic creatures are measured by a thousandth part of those born of moisture; let this be firmly held.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

By a thousandth part of the beings that dwell in water, the birds of the world should all be known.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

The thousandth part of the birds — equal to that should be known the four-footed beasts of the world.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

The two-footed are measured by a thousandth of all the quadrupeds; and the righteous are measured by a thousandth of those.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

By a thousandth part of the righteous are those who have gone to heaven. Whatever is the thousandth part of the righteous in heaven,

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

by that part are the liberated ones measured, just so many. Those dwelling in the places of torment are equal to those who attain heaven.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

The fallen, the wicked who die through hatred of dharma, attain cold and heat in Raurava and in darkness.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

Having come to the place of torment, they suffer bitter and numbing pains. Raurava should be known as hot, its nature fierce with fiery heat;

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

and the one named Andha is ever painful with cold. Thus virtuous people, or righteous men in heaven, are very rare.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

This reckoning has been fixed by the Lord, the Self-born; this count, derived from calculation, is Brahma's and not human.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

The sages said: Mahar, Jana, Tapas, Satya, Bhuta, Bhavya and Bhava — these worlds and the spaces between them have been named by you.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

Tell us truly what the intervals between the worlds are like. Hearing these words of the celibate sages, Vayu, who had seen the truth of things, spoke this truth.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

Vayu said: The manifest is seen by reasoning; those who see directly see it through yoga,

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

and through withdrawal, meditation and austerity, the dissolution of the self. Ribhu, Sanatkumara and others, awakened and pure in intellect,

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

free of sheaths and of passion, good and supremely excellent, are Brahman itself; imperishable and full of joy, these yogins abide in Brahma's world.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

As was done by those lords for the Valakhilya sages, just as I have seen it here while being present there.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

The abode of the Lord is beyond the grasp of those whose purpose is unfulfilled; the Lord, being atomic, is grasped by the wise through inner feeling.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

Knowledge, dispassion, lordship, austerity, truth, forbearance, steadfastness, the state of seer, relation to the self, and overlordship —

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

these ten imperishable qualities abide in Shankara. Being all-pervading and rich in yoga, he delights in favouring Brahma.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

Taking a body as the world, he comes to help. The imperishable, fixed, undisturbed eighth is the one that arises by emanation.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

The abode of that Lord is pure consciousness, supreme and made of maya; the god Maheshvara, master of maya, declares it made by maya.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

The withdrawal of the gods and its measure are now declared; listen as I tell it in detail and in order.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

Brahma's world is declared to be thirteen crores and ten niyutas of yojanas from the earthly world.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

One crore of yojanas and fifty niyutas beyond Brahma's world is remembered as the upper part of the cosmic egg.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

This is the upward extent, remembered as the furthest limit of movement. The natures, eternal and unmeasured, resting on one another's qualities,

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

subtle and productive, are then remembered as the Prakritis; from them was born the overseer, the knower of the field, called Brahma.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

Among them, having Prakriti, is the subtle, imperishable overlordship — the unproduced supreme abode, the atom that rests in the Supreme.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

He is imperishable and beyond inference, formless yet possessing form; appearance, disappearance, sustenance and grace are his.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

The ordainer, incomparable to others, is the atomic great Lord; radiant, he illumines what lies before the darkness.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

The golden egg that existed first, the emanated one, vast and round on all sides, arose from the Lord.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

From the Lord comes the splitting of the seed; the knower of the field is regarded as the seed; Prakriti is declared the womb, and she has Narayana as her self.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

The all-pervading one, for the creation of the world and the arrangement of the worlds — the emission from the true principle is the world-element of the great soul.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

Beyond Brahma's world and within the egg of Brahma, between the two, is a divine city, made of mind and free from sickness.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

It is the abode of the embodied Lord of boundless might; the city there named Shiva is the refuge of those who fear birth.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

O best of brahmins, its inner extent is a full hundred thousand yojanas, set upon a circle like the earth.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

With the light of the midday sun, overpowering all other splendour, and with a great golden rampart radiant as the sun,

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

with four golden gates adorned with strings of pearls, shining white like refined gold, it is well enclosed.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

That lovely divine city in the sky resounds with bells and the like. In that finest and most delightful of cities, on its aerial terraces,

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

variegated with many jewels and filled with banners, rich in every desire and beautiful with groves and gardens,

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

in its houses of silver and of gold, like evening clouds and like Kailasa,

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

those devoted to Bhava, of good vows, rejoice on the tops of the fine palaces with delightful enjoyments of sound and the other senses.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

The sounds of Vedic recitation are unceasing, with many auspicious stories, and the sounds of song and instruments flow all around;

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

incomparable gatherings take place, and such things go on upon the tops of their palaces.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

There is a beautiful thousand-pillared palace of refined gold, adorned everywhere with incomparable fine jewels —

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

with crystals like the moon, with the lustre of beryl gems, with gold like the morning sun and with the brilliance of fire.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

Hearing this, the ascetic sages of Naimisha cried out, and, falling into doubt, spoke these words to the Wind.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

The sages said: Who are those great souls devoted to Bhava who, most worthy of grace, rejoice fully in that finest of cities?

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

Hearing the sages' words, Vayu spoke: Hear of those by whom devotion to the god of gods has been cultivated:

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

the modest, the vigorous, the self-controlled, the courageous and the free from greed, who with pure inner self in deed, mind and speech,

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

single-minded, have taken refuge in Maheshvara — they have obtained residence in Rudra's world, the eternal, imperishable state.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

They attain the unsurpassed likeness of Bhava's form: all with faces like fire, of universal form, with matted locks,

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

blue-throated, dark-necked, with sharp fangs and three eyes, crowned with the crescent moon and wearing crowns of matted hair,

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

all ten-armed heroes, fragrant as the inside of a lotus, like the rising sun, all clad in yellow,

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

all bearing the Pinaka bow in hand, riding white bulls, glorious, wearing earrings and adorned with pearl necklaces,

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

with bodies surpassing in splendour, omniscient and all-seeing; dividing themselves in many ways, free from old age and death,

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

they sport in various states, enjoying pleasures most rare, moving at will, perfected, and enlightened by other perfected ones.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

There are many crores of the great-souled eleven Rudras. With them the great-souled god of gods, Maheshvara,

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

the Lord compassionate to his devotees, beloved of Parvati, rejoices. I see no difference between those Rudras and the great-souled Bhava;

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

I tell you this truly. So spoke Matarishvan this holy account, heard from the Lord.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

Then all those sages, radiant as the sun, having heard this supreme and holy story of the three-eyed god,

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

having received great grace and unsurpassed joy, honoured Vayu of great strength and spoke to him.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

The sages said: O glorious Wind, O lord, you have told us of the Lord's supreme, holy eighth emanation,

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

and properly described his abode and its measure, rich in the dharma of yoga, the supreme abode of the Supreme Self.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

The greatness of Mahadeva is hard to know even for the gods, by his own greatness and yoga, the thousandfold one of boundless might.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

His bewildering of his devotees is only for the sake of compassion. The splendour of Brahma, attended by Lakshmi herself, incomparable,

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

pervading like the moonlight of the moon, is placed in the universal form; that glory shines exceedingly in the dwelling of the god of gods,

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

and of the great-souled Rudras equal to Mahadeva. All of this, entirely, has flowed like nectar from your mouth,

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

and we have drunk it with devotion to Sharva, O one of good vows. There is nothing else unknown; now, O breath of the best of gods, please answer our question properly.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

Suta said: The Lord then said, "What more shall I describe? Whatever I ought to tell, that I shall tell, O you of good vows."

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

The sages said: The Adityas at his side, the lions of wrathful valour, the Vaishvanaras, the hosts of beings and the tigers that follow him —

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

in the terrible dissolution of beings, at the destruction of all living creatures, what becomes of them? Tell us truly.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

Having understood the nature of the Lord and the unmanifest source, Vayu said: Where the young sons of Brahma went before —

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

Sanandana, Sanaka, and the third, Sanatana, Vodhu, Kapila among them, and the illustrious Asuri,

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

the sage Panchashikha and others like them — then, when time has passed and the cycle of kalpas has gone round,

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

at the end of the destruction of the great elements, when dissolution is at hand, the many crores of Rudras, who have propitiated the great Goddess,

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

abandoning the enjoyments of sound and the other objects and the eightfold support, entering all beings with a splendour joined to knowledge,

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

leaving the undisturbed station out of compassion for beings — there the great souls go to the atomic Maheshvara.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

They cross the river of great whirlpools whose waters are birth and death; then they behold the undivided, supreme Brahman.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

Together with the Goddess are the seven who are declared goddesses; the thousand lions and likewise the Adityas,

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

the Vaishvanaras, the hosts of beings and the tigers that follow him — drawing all of them into himself, along with those fit to be counted,

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

these seven worlds again and the five great elements — joined with Vishnu, he creates and transforms.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

That Rudra consists of the Samans and likewise of the Yajus; he is woven through and across, outside and inside, certainly.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

The Lord and master is one, the origin and the ender, O twice-born. Then all those sages, radiant as the sun,

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

having properly placed the fire within themselves by true hearing, with pure inner self in deed, mind and speech,

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

single-minded, take refuge in Maheshvara, devoted to vows and fasts, intent on compassion for all beings.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

They, their doubts cut off, attained the divine unsurpassed yoga; taking refuge with supreme devotion and with splendour joined to knowledge,

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

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they obtained residence in Rudra's world, the eternal, imperishable state. Whoever, joined with austerity, recites this revelation declared by Vayu —

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

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whether brahmin, kshatriya or vaishya, devoted to his own duties — attains Rudra's world, the cause of the world.

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

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When creation has ceased and all rests in Prakriti, then, because it is utterly beyond perception and unseen by anyone,

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

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indescribable, unknowable, unknown even to the wise, and because it comes and goes, there is no grasping of it.

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

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What is said here is said after reflecting by inference from what is grasped by feeling. When that cause, eternal, of the nature of being and non-being, abides,

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

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indefinable, activity arises from its own nature as cause. Thus the Prakritis, repeated twice seven times in order,

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

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enter into one another at the withdrawal of creation. The egg by which all this is covered dissolves into the waters —

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the seven worlds with their mountains, ending with the seven continents and oceans. The covering of water dissolves into light;

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

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the covering of light the wind swallows; the covering of wind space swallows;

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the covering of space the Bhutadi swallows; and the Mahat, whose mark is intellect, swallows the Bhutadi.

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

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The unmanifest, the equilibrium of the qualities beyond it, swallows the Mahat. These two, withdrawal and expansion, are Brahma manifest again;

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he creates and swallows through modification at creation and withdrawal. The perfected knowers, whose effects and instruments are accomplished,

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

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having attained swiftness and dissolved into their own places, the knowers of the field are yoked again to their instruments at the withdrawal.

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

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The unmanifest is called the field, and Brahma is called the knower of the field. Their union, made by likeness and unlikeness, is beginningless.

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

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Thus, O brahmins, it is to be understood among the knowers of the field in the creations; the knower of Brahman should be known as distinct from the knower of the field.

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

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The field and its knower are remembered as object and non-object: Brahma should be known as non-object, and the field is called object.

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

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The field governed by its knower is declared to exist for the knower. Because bodies are many, the embodied one is remembered as manifold.

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

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And the light that abides undivided in Shankara — since pleasure and pain are experienced in each body,

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

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therefore the plurality of persons should be understood by the discerning. When the restraint of these distinctions comes about,

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all, impelled by their own nature, then turn back in the great course of time; those of the Self-born whose passions are stilled,

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

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together with all who have attained union and dwell in Brahma's world, when their state of dwelling in the self ceases,

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

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for those dwelling there at that time who see faults, dispassion arises that destroys the notion of an individual self.

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

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Seeing that state through the diversity of enjoyer and enjoyed, the knowers of the field in Brahma's world, through discriminating knowledge,

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

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all beyond cause in Prakriti, seeing diversity, abide in their own self, tranquil and of the nature of pure seeing.

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

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All pure and stainless, conscious and non-conscious alike, they attain final nirvana there and are remembered as not returning.

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

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Being without qualities and without individual self, they pass beyond Prakriti at its end. Thus the elemental re-dissolution has been declared by the Self-born.

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

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Whoever, observing the conduct of his class and stage of life, hears of the re-dissolution, devoted and free from fever, goes to residence in Shiva's world.

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

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A Shudra who does not drink liquor, who is devoted to Bhava and self-controlled, remaining until the dissolution of beings and marked by being unobstructed,

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

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obtains leadership of Shiva's hosts or an abiding place. One who drinks liquor rejoices with drinkers and with hosts of spirits.

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

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Bhava, served on the surface of the earth, grants boons to mortals. Thus spoke the Lord Vayu these excellent words.