Kurma Purana — Purva Vibhaga — Chapter 5
KuP 1 5.1
श्रीकूर्म उवाच स्वयंभुवो विवृत्तस्य कालसंख्या द्विजोत्तमाः । न शक्यते समाख्यातुं बहुवर्षैरपि स्वयम्
śrīkūrma uvāca svayaṃbhuvo vivṛttasya kālasaṃkhyā dvijottamāḥ / na śakyate samākhyātuṃ bahuvarṣairapi svayam
Śrī Kūrma said: O best of the twice-born, the reckoning of the time of the Self-existent one's evolution cannot be told in full even in many years.
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KuP 1 5.2
कालसंख्या समासेन परार्धद्वयकल्पिता । स एव स्यात् परः कालः तदन्ते प्रतिसृज्यते
kālasaṃkhyā samāsena parārdhadvayakalpitā / sa eva syāt paraḥ kālaḥ tadante pratisṛjyate
In brief, the reckoning of (his) time is computed as two halves of a para; that itself would be the highest time, and at its end the reabsorption takes place.
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KuP 1 5.3
निजेन तस्य मानेन आयुर्वर्षशतं स्मृतम् । तत् पराख्यं तदर्धं च परार्धमभिदीयते
nijena tasya mānena āyurvarṣaśataṃ smṛtam / tat parākhyaṃ tadardhaṃ ca parārdhamabhidīyate
By his own measure his lifespan is said to be a hundred years; that is called para, and half of it is termed parārdha.
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KuP 1 5.4
काष्ठा पञ्चदश ख्याता निमेषा द्विजसत्तमाः । काष्ठास्त्रिंशत् कला त्रिंशत् कला मौहूर्तिकी गतिः
kāṣṭhā pañcadaśa khyātā nimeṣā dvijasattamāḥ / kāṣṭhāstriṃśat kalā triṃśat kalā mauhūrtikī gatiḥ
Fifteen twinklings (nimeṣas) are declared to be a kāṣṭhā, O best of the twice-born; thirty kāṣṭhās a kalā, thirty kalās the course of a muhūrta.
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KuP 1 5.5
तावत्संख्यैरहोरात्रं मुहूर्तैर्मानुषं स्मृतम् । अहोरात्राणि तावन्ति मासः पक्षद्वयात्मकः
tāvatsaṃkhyairahorātraṃ muhūrtairmānuṣaṃ smṛtam / ahorātrāṇi tāvanti māsaḥ pakṣadvayātmakaḥ
By that number of muhūrtas a human day-and-night is reckoned; that many days-and-nights make a month, consisting of two fortnights.
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KuP 1 5.6
तैः षड्भिरयनं वर्षं द्वे ऽयने दक्षिणोत्तरे । अयनं दक्षिणं रात्रिर्देवानामुत्तरं दिनम्
taiḥ ṣaḍbhirayanaṃ varṣaṃ dve 'yane dakṣiṇottare / ayanaṃ dakṣiṇaṃ rātrirdevānāmuttaraṃ dinam
By six of those (months) is an ayana, (by two) a year; the two ayanas are the southern and northern; the southern ayana is the night of the gods, the northern their day.
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KuP 1 5.7
दिव्यैर्वर्षसहस्त्रैस्तु कृतत्रेतादिसंज्ञितम् । चतुर्युगं द्वादशभिः तद्विभागं निबोधत
divyairvarṣasahastraistu kṛtatretādisaṃjñitam / caturyugaṃ dvādaśabhiḥ tadvibhāgaṃ nibodhata
By twelve thousand divine years is the set of four ages named Kṛta, Tretā and the rest; learn its division.
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KuP 1 5.8
चत्वार्याहुः सहस्त्राणि वर्षाणां तत्कृतं युगम् । तस्य तावच्छती सन्ध्या सन्ध्यांशश्च कृतस्य तु
catvāryāhuḥ sahastrāṇi varṣāṇāṃ tatkṛtaṃ yugam / tasya tāvacchatī sandhyā sandhyāṃśaśca kṛtasya tu
They say the Kṛta age is four thousand years; and the twilight of it, and the twilight-portion of the Kṛta, are that many hundreds (i.e. four hundred each).
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KuP 1 5.9
त्रिशती द्विशती सन्ध्या तथा चैकशती क्रमात् । अंशकं षट्शतं तस्मात् कृसन्ध्यांशकं विना
triśatī dviśatī sandhyā tathā caikaśatī kramāt / aṃśakaṃ ṣaṭśataṃ tasmāt kṛsandhyāṃśakaṃ vinā
The twilights are three hundred, two hundred, and likewise one hundred, in order; hence the (total of) portions is six hundred, apart from the twilight-portion of the Kṛta.
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KuP 1 5.10
त्रिद्व्येकसाहस्त्रमतो विना सन्ध्यांशकेन तु । त्रेताद्वापरतिष्याणां कालज्ञाने प्रकीर्तितम्
tridvyekasāhastramato vinā sandhyāṃśakena tu / tretādvāparatiṣyāṇāṃ kālajñāne prakīrtitam
Three thousand, two thousand and one thousand (divine years) respectively, apart from the twilight portions — so it is declared, in the reckoning of time, for the Tretā, the Dvāpara and the Kali (ages).
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KuP 1 5.11
एतद् द्वादशसाहस्त्रं साधिकं परिकल्पितम् । तदेकसप्ततिगुणं मनोरन्तरमुच्यते
etad dvādaśasāhastraṃ sādhikaṃ parikalpitam / tadekasaptatiguṇaṃ manorantaramucyate
This has been reckoned as twelve thousand (years) with the additional (twilight portions); seventy-one times that is called a manvantara.
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KuP 1 5.12
ब्रह्मणो दिवसे विप्रा मनवः स्युश्चतुर्दश । स्वायंभुवादयः सर्वे ततः सावर्णिकादयः
brahmaṇo divase viprā manavaḥ syuścaturdaśa / svāyaṃbhuvādayaḥ sarve tataḥ sāvarṇikādayaḥ
In a day of Brahmā, O brahmins, there are fourteen Manus: Svāyaṃbhuva and the rest, all of them, and then Sāvarṇika and the others.
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KuP 1 5.13
तैरियं पृथिवी सर्वा सप्तद्वीपा सपर्वता । पूर्णं युगसहस्त्रं वै परिपाल्या नरेश्वरैः
tairiyaṃ pṛthivī sarvā saptadvīpā saparvatā / pūrṇaṃ yugasahastraṃ vai paripālyā nareśvaraiḥ
By them, the lords of men, this whole earth with its seven continents and its mountains is to be protected for a full thousand yugas.
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KuP 1 5.14
मन्वन्तरेण चैकेन सर्वाण्येवान्तराणि वै । व्याख्यातानि न संदेहः कल्पं कल्पेन चैव हि
manvantareṇa caikena sarvāṇyevāntarāṇi vai / vyākhyātāni na saṃdehaḥ kalpaṃ kalpena caiva hi
And by (describing) one manvantara all the (other) intervals are indeed explained — there is no doubt of it — and likewise one kalpa by (describing) another kalpa.
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KuP 1 5.15
ब्राह्ममेकमहः कल्पस्तावती रात्रिरिष्यते । चतुर्युगसहस्त्रं तु कल्पमाहुर्मनीषिणः
brāhmamekamahaḥ kalpastāvatī rātririṣyate / caturyugasahastraṃ tu kalpamāhurmanīṣiṇaḥ
One day of Brahmā is a kalpa, and the night is held to be of the same length; the wise say that a kalpa is a thousand fourfold yugas.
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KuP 1 5.16
त्रीणि कल्पशतानि स्युः तथा षष्टिर्द्विजोत्तमाः । ब्रह्मणः कथितं वर्षं पराख्यं तच्छतं विदुः
trīṇi kalpaśatāni syuḥ tathā ṣaṣṭirdvijottamāḥ / brahmaṇaḥ kathitaṃ varṣaṃ parākhyaṃ tacchataṃ viduḥ
Three hundred kalpas and sixty, O best of the twice-born, are said to be a year of Brahmā; a hundred of those they know as what is called 'para'.
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KuP 1 5.17
तस्यान्ते सर्वतत्त्वानां स्वहेतौ प्रकृतौ लयः । तेनायं प्रोच्यते सद्भिः प्राकृतः प्रतिसंचरः
tasyānte sarvatattvānāṃ svahetau prakṛtau layaḥ / tenāyaṃ procyate sadbhiḥ prākṛtaḥ pratisaṃcaraḥ
At the end of that, there is the dissolution of all the principles (tattvas) into their own cause, Prakṛti; therefore this is called by the good the 'primary' (prākṛta) reabsorption.
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KuP 1 5.18
ब्रह्मनारायणेशानां त्रयाणां प्रकृतौ लयः । प्रोच्यते कालयोगेन पुनरेव च संभवः
brahmanārāyaṇeśānāṃ trayāṇāṃ prakṛtau layaḥ / procyate kālayogena punareva ca saṃbhavaḥ
The dissolution into Prakṛti of the three, Brahmā, Nārāyaṇa and Īśa, is spoken of, and their coming into being again, through the operation of Time.
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KuP 1 5.19
एवं ब्रह्मा च भूतानि वासुदेवो ऽपि शङ्करः । कालेनैव तु सृज्यन्ते स एव ग्रसते पुनः
evaṃ brahmā ca bhūtāni vāsudevo 'pi śaṅkaraḥ / kālenaiva tu sṛjyante sa eva grasate punaḥ
Thus Brahmā and the beings, and Vāsudeva too, and Śaṅkara, are created by Time alone, and that same (Time) devours them again.
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KuP 1 5.20
अनादिरेष भगवान् कालो ऽनन्तो ऽजरो ऽमरः । सर्वगत्वात् स्वतन्त्रत्वात् सर्वात्मासौ महेश्वरः
anādireṣa bhagavān kālo 'nanto 'jaro 'maraḥ / sarvagatvāt svatantratvāt sarvātmāsau maheśvaraḥ
This lord Time is without beginning, endless, unaging, undying; because he pervades all and is independent, he, the Self of all, is Maheśvara.
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KuP 1 5.21
ब्रह्माणो बहवो रुद्रा ह्यन्ये नारायणादयः । एको हि भगवानीशः कालः कविरिति श्रुति
brahmāṇo bahavo rudrā hyanye nārāyaṇādayaḥ / eko hi bhagavānīśaḥ kālaḥ kaviriti śruti
There are many Brahmās, and Rudras, and others beginning with Nārāyaṇa; but the Lord God is one — Time, the seer — so says the śruti.
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KuP 1 5.22
एकमत्र व्यतीतं तु परार्धं ब्रह्मणो द्विजाः । सांप्रतं वर्तते तद्वत् तस्य कल्पो ऽयमष्टमः
ekamatra vyatītaṃ tu parārdhaṃ brahmaṇo dvijāḥ / sāṃprataṃ vartate tadvat tasya kalpo 'yamaṣṭamaḥ
Here one half (of the life) of Brahmā has passed, O twice-born, and the (second) is likewise now proceeding; this is his eighth kalpa.
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KuP 1 5.23
यो ऽतीतः सप्तमः कल्पः पाद्म इत्युच्यते बुधैः । वाराहो वर्तते कल्पः तस्य वक्ष्यामि विस्तरम्
yo 'tītaḥ saptamaḥ kalpaḥ pādma ityucyate budhaiḥ / vārāho vartate kalpaḥ tasya vakṣyāmi vistaram
The seventh kalpa, which has passed, is called Pādma by the learned; the Vārāha kalpa is now current, and of it I shall speak in detail.
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