Vamana Purana — Sukesha's Boon & Twelve Dharmas, Shloka 54
Sukesha’s Boon, the Twelve Dharmas of Beings, and the Cosmography of the Seven Dvipas with the Twenty-One Hells
ततस्तु कालचक्रेति पञ्चमः परिगीयते अप्रतिष्ठं च नरकं घटीयन्त्रं च सप्तमम्
tatastu kālacakreti pañcamaḥ parigīyate apratiṣṭhaṃ ca narakaṃ ghaṭīyantraṃ ca saptamam
پھر پانچواں ‘کال چکر’ (وقت کا پہیہ) کے نام سے گایا گیا ہے۔ ‘اپرتِشٹھ’ نامی دوزخ بھی ہے، اور ساتواں ‘گھٹی یَنتر’ کہلاتا ہے۔
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FAQs
Time (kāla) is portrayed as inescapable: deeds mature inevitably into results. The naming of torments as mechanisms (cakra, yantra) underscores that karma operates with regularity—one cannot ‘bargain’ with consequences.
Primarily dharma-upadeśa framed through cosmographic listing. It is not sarga/pratisarga in a creation-cycle sense, yet it uses cosmological taxonomy to inculcate ethical discipline.
Kālacakra suggests cyclic, grinding inevitability—time ‘turns’ and crushes accumulated wrongdoing. Apratiṣṭha (‘no footing’) implies loss of stability/support (social, moral, inner). Ghaṭīyantra evokes measured, mechanical time—torment as precise, metered consequence.