Shloka 55
Sūrya-stava: Dhaumya’s Counsel and the Aṣṭaśata-nāma of Sūrya
यदहर्ब्रह्मण: प्रोक्ते सहस्रयुगसम्मितम् । तस्य त्वमादिरन्तश्ष॒ कालज्ञै: परिकीर्तित:,ब्रद्माजीका जो एक सहस्र युगोंका दिन बताया गया है, कालमानके जाननेवाले विद्वानोंने उसका आदि और अन्त आपको ही बताया है
yad ahar brahmaṇaḥ prokte sahasra-yuga-sammitam | tasya tvam ādir antaś ca kāla-jñaiḥ parikīrtitaḥ ||
Yudhiṣṭhira said: “That ‘day of Brahmā’ which is declared to be equal in measure to a thousand yugas—of that vast span, the knowers of time proclaim You alone to be both the beginning and the end.”
युधिछिर उवाच
Educational Q&A
Even the largest cosmic measures—like Brahmā’s day, said to equal a thousand yugas—are framed by a higher reality: the one addressed here is affirmed as both the origin and the termination of time itself.
Yudhiṣṭhira, in a reflective and reverential mode, cites cosmological doctrine about Brahmā’s day and then directs it toward praise: learned authorities on time identify the addressed being as the beginning and end of that immense temporal cycle.