Matsya Purana — The Strategy to Defeat Tāraka: Pārvatī’s Birth, Shloka 82

Devanagari script

संभूतिस्त्वं पदार्थानां स्थितिस्त्वं लोकपालिनी त्वं कालरात्रिर्निःशेषभुवनावलिनाशिनी //

Transliteration

saṃbhūtistvaṃ padārthānāṃ sthitistvaṃ lokapālinī tvaṃ kālarātrirniḥśeṣabhuvanāvalināśinī //

Translation

Tu es Sambhūti, l’avènement de tous les êtres, et tu es Sthiti, leur maintien, ô Protectrice des mondes. Tu es Kālārātri — la nuit sombre du Temps — qui anéantit sans reste toute la succession des mondes.

Word by Word

• saṃbhūtiḥ: origination, coming-into-being

• tvam: you

• padārthānām: of all things/entities/categories

• sthitiḥ: maintenance, continuance, stability

• tvam: you

• loka-pālinī: protectress/governess of the worlds

• tvam: you

• kāla-rātriḥ: the Night of Time (personified cosmic dissolution)

• niḥśeṣa: without remainder, completely

• bhuvana-āvali: the series/chain of worlds

• nāśinī: destroyer, dissolver

Speaker

• Sūta (narratorial recitation of a Devi-stuti within the Matsya Purana’s discourse framework)

Entities Mentioned

• Lokapālinī
• Kālārātri

Tags

• Pralaya
• Devi-Stuti
• Shakti
• Cosmology
• Creation-Sustenance-Dissolution

FAQs

What does this verse reveal about the creation or dissolution (Pralaya)?

It identifies the Goddess as the power behind both sambhūti (origination) and sthiti (maintenance), and also as Kālārātri—the Time-force that brings total dissolution of the worlds at Pralaya.

How does this verse relate to the duties of a King or Householder?

By framing the cosmos as sustained by protective order (sthiti) and governed by Time, it supports the Purāṇic ethic that rulers and householders should uphold loka-saṃgraha (world-order)—protection, stability, and dharmic governance—while remembering the impermanence of all power under Kāla.

What is the architectural or ritual significance mentioned here?

No direct Vāstu or temple-rule is stated; ritually, the verse functions as a stuti-mantra emphasizing the deity as the cosmic foundation (creation–maintenance–dissolution), a common theological basis for consecration (pratiṣṭhā) and protective rites invoking the Goddess as lokapālinī.