इदं युगसहस्रेषु भविष्यमभविद्दिनम् । तदप्यद्यत्वमापन्नं का कथामरणावधेः
idaṃ yugasahasreṣu bhaviṣyamabhaviddinam | tadapyadyatvamāpannaṃ kā kathāmaraṇāvadheḥ
यह दिन कभी हजारों युगों के बाद आने वाला लगता था; पर वही ‘आज’ बनकर आ पहुँचा। फिर मृत्यु की सीमा के विषय में क्या कहा जाए?
Lomaśa
Scene: An allegorical vision of time: a vast cosmic wheel or flowing river of time compressing yugas into a single ‘today’, with a shadow of death at the edge.
Time collapses quickly into the present; therefore one should not postpone spiritual effort.
None is named in this verse; it provides philosophical groundwork for later māhātmya instruction.
No explicit rite; it encourages immediate practice of dharma and sādhana.