Shloka 35
Adhyaya 46 — Cosmic Dissolution, the Emergence of Brahma, and the Measures of Time (Yugas, Manvantaras, and Brahma’s Day)
त्रिंशत्कोट्यस्तु संपूर्णाः संख्याताः संख्यया द्विज ।
सत्पषष्ठिस्तथान्यानि नियुतानि च संख्यया ॥
triṃśat-koṭyas tu saṃpūrṇāḥ saṃkhyātāḥ saṃkhyayā dvija | sat-paṣaṣṭis tathā anyāni niyutāni ca saṃkhyayā ||
ஓ இருபிறப்பாளனே! அது முழுமையாக முப்பது கோடி; மேலும் எண்ணிக்கையின்படி அறுபத்தாறு நியுதங்கள் கூடுதலாக உள்ளன.
FAQs
The Purāṇa uses vast numeration to expand perspective beyond a single lifespan, encouraging long-view responsibility and reverence for cosmic law.
Manvantara: it supplies the quantitative measure of a Manu-period, a standard Purāṇic characteristic.
Large-number language functions as ‘awe pedagogy’: it dissolves egoic immediacy and points the mind toward the immeasurable (ananta) underlying measurable time.