Adhyaya 45 — Jaimini’s Cosmological Questions and the Opening of Markandeya’s Account of Primary Creation
यावत्यः सृष्टयश्चैव यावन्तः प्रलयास्तथा ।
यथा कल्पविभागश्च या च मन्वन्तरस्थितिḥ ॥
yāvatyaḥ sṛṣṭayaś caiva yāvantaḥ pralayās tathā | yathā kalpavibhāgaś ca yā ca manvantarasthitiḥ ||
មានការបង្កើតប៉ុន្មានប្រភេទ ហើយការលាយលះ (dissolution) ប៉ុន្មានប្រភេទដូចគ្នា; ការបែងចែកកល្បៈ (kalpa) មានយ៉ាងដូចម្តេច; ហើយរយៈពេល/រចនាសម្ព័ន្ធនៃមន្វន្តរៈ (manvantara) ជាអ្វី—សូមប្រាប់ខ្ញុំ។
The request expands perspective from personal time to cosmic time; ethical steadiness arises when one sees one’s life as a brief segment within repeating cycles.
Directly concerns sarga and pratisarga (cycles of creation/re-creation) and manvantara (epochal administration), core purāṇic lakṣaṇas.
Kalpa divisions can symbolize graded states of consciousness; repeated ‘creation/dissolution’ parallels the continual arising and subsiding of experience in meditation.