Adhyaya 46 — The Continents
दिव्यैर्वर्षसहस्रैस्तु कृतत्रेतादिसंज्ञितम् ।
चतुर्युगं द्वादशभिस्तद्विभागं शृणुष्व मे ॥
divyair varṣasahasrais tu kṛtatretādisaṃjñitam | caturyugaṃ dvādaśabhis tad vibhāgaṃ śṛṇuṣva me ||
दैव-वर्षांच्या सहस्रांमध्ये कृत, त्रेता इत्यादी युगे निर्दिष्ट केली आहेत. चतुर्युग बारा सहस्र (दैव-वर्षे) असे मानले जाते; त्याचे विभाग माझ्याकडून ऐक.
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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.