Shloka 40
Adhyaya 49 — Cosmic Dissolution
धनुषां द्वे सहस्रे तु गव्यूतिस्तच्चतुर्गुणम् ।
प्रोक्तञ्च योजनं प्राज्ञैः संख्यानार्थमिदं परम् ॥
dhanuṣāṃ dve sahasre tu gavyūtis tac catur-guṇam | proktaṃ ca yojanaṃ prājñaiḥ saṃkhyāna-artham idaṃ param ||
Two thousand dhanus make a gavyūti; four times that, the wise call a yojana. This has been stated for the sake of reckoning numbers and distances.
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FAQs
The explicit aim—‘for reckoning’—shows Purāṇic pedagogy: sacred literature also trains the listener in practical frameworks needed for describing the world coherently.
A technical adjunct to Sarga-style world description and later geographic narration; it is not itself a creation or manvantara account.
Large measures (yojana) built from tiny units mirror the doctrine that vast cosmic structures arise from subtle constituents—unity of scale.