Shloka 31
Adhyaya 46 — Cosmic Dissolution, the Emergence of Brahma, and the Measures of Time (Yugas, Manvantaras, and Brahma’s Day)
एषा द्वादशसाहस्री युगाख्या कविभिः कृता ।
एतत् सहस्रगुणितमो ब्राह्म्यमुदाहृतम् ॥
eṣā dvādaśasāhastrī yugākhyā kavibhiḥ kṛtā | etat sahasraguṇitamo brāhmyam udāhṛtam ||
ഈ യുഗചക്രത്തെ മുനിമാർ ‘പന്ത്രണ്ടായിരം’ എന്നു വിളിക്കുന്നു. ഇതിനെ ആയിരം മടങ്ങാക്കിയാൽ ബ്രാഹ്മ്യ (ബ്രഹ്മാസംബന്ധിയായ) അളവെന്ന് പ്രഖ്യാപിക്കുന്നു.
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FAQs
The Purāṇa trains the intellect to think in scalable orders of magnitude; ethical life is thereby framed as meaningful within immense temporal horizons.
Cosmic chronology (kāla) is a structural prerequisite for manvantara and vaṃśānucarita narration; it anchors events within repeating cycles of creation and dissolution (sarga/pratisarga).
‘Multiply by a thousand’ signals a fractal cosmology: patterns repeat at higher scales, implying that inner and outer cycles reflect one another.