Shloka 56

कालनिर्णयः, युगधर्मवर्णनम्, सृष्टिक्रमश्च

Time-Reckoning, Yuga-Dharma, and the Sequence of Creation

Devanagari script

शचीपति इन्द्र! जैसे तुम हो, वैसे ही बल और पराक्रमसे सम्पन्न अनेक सहस्र इन्द्र समाप्त हो चुके हैं ।। त्वामप्यतिबलं शक्र देवराजं बलोत्कटम्‌ | प्राप्त काले महावीर्य: काल: संशमयिष्यति,शक्र! तुम अपनेको अत्यन्त शक्तिशाली और उत्कट बलसे युक्त देवराज समझते हो; परंतु समय आनेपर महापराक्रमी काल तुम्हें भी शान्त कर देगा

Transliteration

tvām apy atibalaṃ śakra devarājaṃ balotkaṭam | prāpta-kāle mahāvīryaḥ kālaḥ saṃśamayīṣyati ||

Translation

Indra, lord of Śacī, is told: “As you are, so too have many thousands of Indras—endowed with strength and valor—already met their end. O Śakra, you deem yourself exceedingly powerful, the king of the gods, fierce in might; yet when the appointed time arrives, mighty Time will bring even you to quietude.”

Word by Word

• {'tvām': 'you', 'api': 'also, even', 'atibalam': 'exceedingly strong, very powerful', 'śakra': 'Śakra

• Indra', 'devarājam': 'king of the gods', 'balotkaṭam': 'fierce/terrible in strength

• possessed of intense force', 'prāpta-kāle': 'when the time has come

• at the destined time', 'mahāvīryaḥ': 'of great valor/power

• mighty', 'kālaḥ': 'Time (also Death/fate as a cosmic force)', 'saṃśamayīṣyati': 'will pacify, will bring to rest/quiet, will subdue'}

Speaker

श॒क्र उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Śakra (Indra)
• Śacīpati (husband of Śacī; Indra)
• Kāla (Time)