Shloka 383
Pitāmaha-sabhā-varṇana & Hariścandra-māhātmya
Description of Brahmā’s Assembly and the Eminence of Hariścandra
धर्मचक्रं तथा चापि नित्यमास्ते युधिष्ठिर । साठ संवत्सर, पाँच संवत्सरोंका युग, चार प्रकारके दिन-रात (मानव, पितर, देवता और ब्रह्माजीके दिन-रात), नित्य, दिव्य, अक्षय एवं अव्यय कालचक्र तथा धर्मचक्र भी देह धारण करके सदा ब्रह्माजीकी सभामें उपस्थित रहते हैं
dharmacakraṃ tathā cāpi nityam āste yudhiṣṭhira | ṣaṣṭi-saṃvatsaraḥ pañca-saṃvatsarāṇāṃ yugaṃ caturvidhaṃ dina-rātraṃ (mānuṣa-pitṛ-deva-brahma-dina-rātrāṇi) nityaṃ divyam akṣayam avyayaṃ kālacakraṃ ca dharmacakraṃ ca dehaṃ dhṛtvā sadā brahma-sabhāyāṃ samupasthitam iti |
Nārada said: “O Yudhiṣṭhira, the Wheel of Dharma is ever present. Along with it stand embodied the measures of time itself—the cycle of sixty years, the five-year yuga, and the four kinds of day and night (of humans, ancestors, gods, and Brahmā). The eternal, divine, imperishable, undecaying Wheel of Time, and the Wheel of Dharma, taking form, remain always in Brahmā’s assembly.”
नारद उवाच
Educational Q&A
Dharma and Time are portrayed as cosmic, objective principles—so fundamental that they are imagined as embodied presences in Brahmā’s court. The ethical implication is that righteous rule aligns with an enduring moral order, not merely personal preference or political convenience.
Nārada is describing the marvels and constituents of Brahmā’s assembly. He lists not only beings but also abstract cosmic regulators—calendrical cycles and the Wheels of Time and Dharma—depicting them as ever-present attendants in the divine court.