Shloka 19
हिरण्यपुरवर्णनम्
Description of Hiraṇyapura and the Nivātakavacas
अत: किल महानग्निरन्तकाले समुत्थित: । थक्ष्यते मातले सर्व त्रैलोक्यं सचराचरम्
ataḥ kila mahāgnir antakāle samutthitaḥ | thakṣyate mātale sarvaṃ trailokyaṃ sacarācaram ||
নারদ বললেন—“অতএব বলা হয়, প্রলয়কালে এক মহাভয়ংকর অগ্নি উদ্ভূত হবে; হে মাতলি! সে চলমান ও অচলসহ সমগ্র ত্রিলোককে দগ্ধ করে দেবে।”
नारद उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse teaches impermanence at a cosmic scale: even the three worlds are consumed at dissolution. This perspective ethically relativizes power, wealth, and victory, urging humility and dharmic restraint amid worldly struggles.
Nārada addresses Mātali and describes the end-time conflagration: a great fire arises and consumes the entire threefold world, including all beings and things, moving and unmoving.