कालाग्निं प्रेरयत्येव कल्पांते दह्यते जगत् । एवंविधमधःसूत्रं निर्मितं चात्र भारत
kālāgniṃ prerayatyeva kalpāṃte dahyate jagat | evaṃvidhamadhaḥsūtraṃ nirmitaṃ cātra bhārata
En vérité, Il met en branle le Feu du Temps ; à la fin d’un kalpa, le monde est consumé. Ainsi, ô Bhārata, tel est le « cordon inférieur » (structure de soutien) façonné ici.
Lomaharṣaṇa (Sūta) to the sages
Listener: Bhārata
Scene: A cosmic panorama at kalpānta: the Fire of Time expands outward, consuming worlds; above, faint silhouettes of lokas dissolve; below, the 'adhaḥ-sūtra' appears as a dark axis/cord anchoring the structure, while a narrator addresses Bhārata.
Creation and dissolution are lawful phases of time; even cosmic destruction (kālāgni) is an ordered function within dharma-governed reality.
None; this passage is cosmological rather than a tīrtha-māhātmya.
None in this verse.