Shloka 55
कालनिर्णयः, युगधर्मवर्णनम्, सृष्टिक्रमश्च
Time-Reckoning, Yuga-Dharma, and the Sequence of Creation
दूसरे लोग उस कालको ऋतु, मास, पक्ष, दिन, क्षण, पूर्वाह्न, अपराह्न और मध्याह्न कहते हैं। उसीको विद्वान् पुरुष मुहूर्त भी कहते हैं। वह एक होकर भी अनेक प्रकारका बताया जाता है। इन्द्र! तुम उस कालको इस प्रकार जानो। यह सारा जगत् उसीके अधीन है ।।
bahūnīndra-sahasrāṇi samatītāni vāsava | balavīryopapannāni yathaiva tvaṃ śacīpate ||
Wika ni Śakra (Indra): “O Vāsava, di-mabilang na libu-libong Indra na ang lumipas—bawat isa’y may lakas at kabayanihang tulad mo, O panginoon ni Śacī. Kaya unawain mo ang Panahon: bagama’t iisa, tinatawag ito sa maraming anyo—panahon ng taon, buwan, kalahating buwan, araw, sandali, umaga, hapon, at tanghaling-tapat; tinatawag din ito ng mga pantas na muhūrta. Ang buong daigdig ay nasa ilalim ng kapangyarihan nito.”
श॒क्र उवाच
Educational Q&A
Even the highest worldly authority is transient: innumerable Indras have come and gone. Time (Kāla) governs all, so one should cultivate humility and detachment from pride in power.
Śakra addresses Indra with epithets (Vāsava, Śacīpati) to emphasize that the office of Indra is cyclical. He frames a teaching on Kāla: though one reality, it is conventionally divided into many measures, and all beings remain subject to it.