Shloka 39

Adhyaya 4 — Jaimini Meets the Dharmapakshis: Four Doubts on the Mahabharata and the Opening of Narayana Doctrine

Sanskrit

आविर्भावतिरोभावदृष्टादृष्टविलक्षणम् ।

वदन्ति यत् सृष्टमिदं तथैवान्ते च संहृतम् ॥

Transliteration

āvirbhāva-tirobhāva-dṛṣṭādṛṣṭa-vilakṣaṇam / vadanti yad sṛṣṭam idaṃ tathaivānte ca saṃhṛtam

Translation

Ils décrivent ce monde créé comme caractérisé par l’apparition et la disparition, et distingué en visible et invisible ; et de même, à la fin, il est retiré (dissous).

Speakers

• Not specified in the prompt (context likely within the Purana’s early cosmological narration)

Key Themes

• Cosmology
• Sarga (creation)
• Pralaya (dissolution)
• Manifest/Unmanifest
• Cyclic time