Adhyaya 46 — Cosmic Dissolution, the Emergence of Brahma, and the Measures of Time (Yugas, Manvantaras, and Brahma’s Day)
दिव्यैर्वर्षसहस्रैस्तु कृतत्रेतादिसंज्ञितम् ।
चतुर्युगं द्वादशभिस्तद्विभागं शृणुष्व मे ॥
divyair varṣasahasrais tu kṛtatretādisaṃjñitam | caturyugaṃ dvādaśabhis tad vibhāgaṃ śṛṇuṣva me ||
ದೈವ ವರ್ಷಗಳ ಸಹಸ್ರಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ಕೃತ, ತ್ರೇತಾ ಮೊದಲಾದ ಯುಗಗಳು ನಿರ್ದಿಷ್ಟವಾಗಿವೆ. ಚತುರ್ಯುಗವು ಹನ್ನೆರಡು ಸಹಸ್ರ (ದೈವ ವರ್ಷಗಳು) ಎಂದು ಗಣಿಸಲಾಗುತ್ತದೆ; ಅದರ ವಿಭಾಗಗಳನ್ನು ನನ್ನಿಂದ ಕೇಳು.
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Dharma is portrayed as cyclically waxing and waning across vast epochs; ethical life is framed as participating in a larger moral ecology of time.
Manvantara-chronology support: yuga lengths are required to compute manvantaras and kalpa-scale narratives (sarga/pratisarga contexts).
The ‘fourfold age’ can be read as phases of inner discipline: purity, effort, conflict, and obscuration—recurring in personal and collective history.