Shloka 7
Naimittika-pralaya and the Theology of Kāla: Seven Suns, Saṃvartaka Fire, Flood, and Varāha Kalpa
ब्राह्मो नैमित्तिको नाम कल्पान्ते यो भविष्यति / त्रैलोक्यस्यास्य कथितः प्रतिसर्गो मनीषिभिः
brāhmo naimittiko nāma kalpānte yo bhaviṣyati / trailokyasyāsya kathitaḥ pratisargo manīṣibhiḥ
کَلپ کے اختتام پر جو برہما سے متعلق نَیمِتّک پرلَے ہوتا ہے، وہ بیان کیا گیا؛ اور اس کے بعد اس پورے تریلوک کا ‘پرتی سرگ’ یعنی دوبارہ ظہور، داناؤں نے بتایا ہے۔
Narrator/Sūta (purāṇic narration) describing cosmology as taught by sages
Primary Rasa: adbhuta
Secondary Rasa: shanta
FAQs
Indirectly: it frames the world-process as periodic dissolution and re-creation, implying the Atman/Iśvara as the stable ground beyond kalpa-ending change, while the three worlds arise again through pratisarga.
No specific practice is prescribed in this verse; it supplies the cosmological backdrop used in the Kurma Purana to motivate yoga and dharma—dispassion (vairāgya) toward impermanent worlds repeatedly dissolved and re-manifested.
It does not name Śiva or Viṣṇu explicitly; it presents a shared purāṇic cosmology (Brahmā’s periodic dissolution and re-creation) that the Kurma Purana later integrates into its Śaiva–Vaiṣṇava synthesis by treating cosmic functions as harmonized under the one supreme reality.