Shloka 32
Adhyaya 46 — Cosmic Dissolution, the Emergence of Brahma, and the Measures of Time (Yugas, Manvantaras, and Brahma’s Day)
ब्रह्मणो दिवसे ब्रह्मन् मनवः स्युश्चतुर्दश ।
भवन्ति भागशस्तेषां सहस्रं तद्विभज्यते ॥
brahmaṇo divase brahman manavaḥ syuś caturdaśa | bhavanti bhāgaśas teṣāṃ sahasraṃ tad vibhajyate ||
हे ब्राह्मण, ब्रह्मणोऽह्नि एकस्मिन् चतुर्दश मनवः सन्ति। तेषां कालाः भागवत् विभज्यन्ते; स अहः सहस्रधा विभक्तः।
FAQs
Human history is framed as cyclical and governed by vast cosmic measures; this relativizes individual events and encourages steadiness (dhairya) and dharma across changing ages.
Primarily Manvantara (the succession and structure of Manu-periods) and, by implication, Sarga/Pratisarga insofar as creation and dissolution recur across Brahmā’s day-night.
The ‘thousand divisions’ alludes to the thousand mahāyugas constituting a kalpa-day; it symbolizes ordered manifestation (ṛta) emerging from measurable time rather than randomness.