Narada Purana — Purva Bhaga, Shloka 5
The Description of the Brahmāṇḍa Purāṇa’s Table of Contents
Anukramaṇī
एष वै प्रथमः पादो द्वितीयं श्रृणु मानद । कल्पमन्वन्तराख्यानं लोकज्ञानं ततः परम् ॥ ५ ॥
eṣa vai prathamaḥ pādo dvitīyaṃ śrṛṇu mānada | kalpamanvantarākhyānaṃ lokajñānaṃ tataḥ param || 5 ||
یہی پہلا پاد ہے؛ اب، اے معزز، دوسرا پاد سنو۔ اس میں کلپوں اور منونتروں کے واقعات ہیں، اور اس کے بعد عوالم سے متعلق اعلیٰ معرفت ہے۔
Sage Narada
Vrata: none
Primary Rasa: shanta
Secondary Rasa: adbhuta
FAQs
It frames the Purana as a guided curriculum: after completing the “first pāda,” the listener is led into deeper cosmological teaching—kalpas, manvantaras, and loka-jñāna—so devotion and dharma are grounded in an ordered vision of time and creation.
Indirectly, by outlining the text’s progression: understanding cosmic cycles (kalpa/manvantara) and the worlds (lokas) supports steadiness in Vishnu-bhakti, showing the impermanence of worldly phases and the need for refuge in the eternal.
The verse points to Purāṇic cosmology and chronology rather than a specific Vedāṅga; it is most adjacent to jyotiṣa-style time-reckoning (kalpa/manvantara frameworks) used for understanding sacred history and ritual-temporal context.