Shloka 11
Adhyaya 45 — Jaimini’s Cosmological Questions and the Opening of Markandeya’s Account of Primary Creation
यावत्यः सृष्टयश्चैव यावन्तः प्रलयास्तथा ।
यथा कल्पविभागश्च या च मन्वन्तरस्थितिḥ ॥
yāvatyaḥ sṛṣṭayaś caiva yāvantaḥ pralayās tathā | yathā kalpavibhāgaś ca yā ca manvantarasthitiḥ ||
படைகள் எத்தனை, அதுபோலப் பிரளயங்கள் எத்தனை; கல்பங்களின் பிரிவுகள் எவ்வாறு; மேலும் மன்வந்தரத்தின் காலஅளவும் அமைப்பும் என்ன—இவற்றை எனக்குச் சொல்லுங்கள்.
FAQs
The request expands perspective from personal time to cosmic time; ethical steadiness arises when one sees one’s life as a brief segment within repeating cycles.
Directly concerns sarga and pratisarga (cycles of creation/re-creation) and manvantara (epochal administration), core purāṇic lakṣaṇas.
Kalpa divisions can symbolize graded states of consciousness; repeated ‘creation/dissolution’ parallels the continual arising and subsiding of experience in meditation.