Shloka 37
Indrajit’s Binding, Restoration by Viśalyā, and Counsel Restraining Rāvaṇa (Āraṇyaka Parva 273)
चतुर्युगसहस्रान्ते सलिलेनाप्लुता मही । ततो नारायणाख्यस्तु सहस्राक्ष: सहस्रपात्
caturyugasahasrānte salilenāplutā mahī | tato nārāyaṇākhyastu sahasrākṣaḥ sahasrapāt |
चतुर्युगांच्या सहस्र-चक्राच्या शेवटी पृथ्वी जलाने बुडून जाते. तेव्हा ‘नारायण’ या नावाने प्रसिद्ध—सहस्र नेत्रांचा व सहस्र चरणांचा—तो प्रभू प्रकट होतो.
भीमसेन उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse frames dharma within cosmic time: even when the world is dissolved at the end of immense cycles, the all-pervading Nārāyaṇa remains the sustaining reality. Ethical order is thus not merely social convention but rooted in a transcendent, enduring principle.
Bhīma recounts a cosmological scene: after a vast period (a thousand four-yuga cycles), the earth is flooded, and Nārāyaṇa is described in grand, universal terms (‘thousand-eyed, thousand-footed’), signaling a theophany-like depiction of the divine presence during dissolution.