Shloka 38
Pitāmaha-sabhā-varṇana & Hariścandra-māhātmya
Description of Brahmā’s Assembly and the Eminence of Hariścandra
संवत्सरा: पञ्च युगमहोरात्रश्नतुर्विध: । कालचक्र च तद् दिव्यं नित्यमक्षयमव्ययम्
saṃvatsarāḥ pañca yugam ahorātraś caturvidhaḥ | kālacakraṃ ca tad divyaṃ nityam akṣayam avyayam ||
Nārada said: “Five years make up a yuga; and the day-and-night cycle is spoken of as fourfold. This divine Wheel of Time turns everlastingly—constant, inexhaustible, and undecaying.”
नारद उवाच
Educational Q&A
Time is presented as a divine, orderly cycle—measurable in conventional units yet ultimately constant and inexhaustible—encouraging humility and steadiness in dharmic conduct amid change.
Nārada explains a traditional reckoning of time (yuga and day-night classifications) and frames it within the larger idea of the ever-turning, imperishable Wheel of Time.