Shloka 49
कालनिर्णयः, युगधर्मवर्णनम्, सृष्टिक्रमश्च
Time-Reckoning, Yuga-Dharma, and the Sequence of Creation
वह कालरूप ब्रह्म अनन्त जलसे भरे हुए महासागरके समान गम्भीर एवं गहन है। उसका कहीं आदि-अन्त नहीं है। उसे ही क्षर एवं अक्षररूप बताया गया है ।।
śakra uvāca — sa kālarūpaḥ brahma anantajalase bhareṣu mahāsāgareṣu iva gambhīraḥ gahanaś ca; tasya kvacid ādir na antaś ca. sa eva kṣara-akṣararūpa iti kathitaḥ. sattveṣu liṅdram āveśya nirliṅdram api tat svayam; manyante dhruvam evainaṃ ye janās tattvadarśinaḥ—sa kālarūpaḥ parabrahma paramātmā svayaṃ nirākāraḥ san api sarvaprāṇiṣu jīvasya praveśaṃ kārayati.
シャクラは言った。「時を相とするその梵（ブラフマン）は、無尽の水を満たす大海のように深遠にして測りがたい。いずこにも始まりなく、終わりもない。それは可滅と不滅の両面をもつと説かれる。みずからは何の相も形も持たぬが、微細なる生の原理（ジーヴァ）を衆生のうちに入らしめる。真実を見抜く者は、これを確かなこととして受けとめる。」
श॒क्र उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse teaches that the Supreme Reality, appearing as Time, is beginningless and endless, and is spoken of as both perishable and imperishable. Though formless and unmarked, it governs embodied existence by causing the living principle to enter beings, while itself remaining beyond embodiment.
Indra (Śakra) is speaking in a philosophical discourse within Śānti Parva, describing the nature of the supreme Brahman as Time—vast like an ocean, without beginning or end—and explaining how the formless Supreme is understood by truth-seers to be the inner governor of living beings.