Shloka 43
Adhyaya 46 — The Continents
एवमस्य परार्धन्तु व्यतीतं द्विजसत्तम ।
यस्यान्तेऽभून्महाकल्पः पाद्म इत्यभिविश्रुतः ॥
evam asya parārdhantu vyatītaṃ dvijasattama / yasyānte 'bhūn mahākalpaḥ pādma ity abhiviśrutaḥ
ఇలా, ఓ ద్విజశ్రేష్ఠా, అతని ఒక పరార్ధం గడిచిపోయింది; దాని అంత్యంలో ‘పాద్మ’ అని ప్రసిద్ధమైన మహా కల్పం సంభవించింది।
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FAQs
By naming and indexing cosmic epochs, the text conveys that even the ‘largest events’ are orderly and countable—an invitation to see existence as structured rather than random.
It supports ‘Saṃsthā’ (dissolution/ends of cycles) and the Purāṇic duty to enumerate kalpas and their sequence—part of the cosmological scaffolding for sarga/pratisarga.
‘Pādma’ (lotus) subtly echoes the lotus-birth symbolism of Brahmā and the emergence of ordered worlds from primordial waters—cosmic time is tied to archetypal imagery.