सूर्यरथ-कालचक्र-आयनविभागः, संध्योपासनम्, देवयान-पितृयानम्, विष्णुपद-गङ्गावतरणम्
ब्रह्महत्याश्वमेधाभ्यां पापपुण्यकृतो विधिः आभूतसंप्लवान्तान्तं फलम् उक्तं तयोर् द्विज
brahmahatyāśvamedhābhyāṃ pāpapuṇyakṛto vidhiḥ ābhūtasaṃplavāntāntaṃ phalam uktaṃ tayor dvija
Hỡi bậc lưỡng sinh, nêu hai cực—tội Brahmahatyā (sát hại Bà-la-môn) và công đức Aśvamedha—quy tắc về các hành vi sinh tội và sinh phước đã được trình bày; và quả báo của cả hai được nói là còn kéo dài đến Mahāpralaya, tức tận cùng của bhūta-samplava, trận đại hồng thủy vũ trụ.
Sage Parāśara (to Maitreya)
Speaker: Parasara
Topic: Karmic extremes (brahmahatyā and aśvamedha) and the duration of their फल (fruit) up to the cosmic deluge
Teaching: Ethical
Quality: authoritative
Concept: Merit and demerit operate under a fixed moral law whose results persist across vast cosmic timescales, even up to the final dissolution of beings.
Vedantic Theme: Dharma
Application: Weigh actions by their long-term ethical consequences and cultivate restraint, avoiding grave harms while pursuing purifying duties without attachment.
Vishishtadvaita: Karmic governance is part of the Lord’s ordered cosmos, where moral causality functions within His sustaining sovereignty.
Vishnu Form: Para-Brahman
They function as illustrative extremes—one of gravest demerit and one of highest ritual merit—so the text can summarize the governing principle of karma by reference to its endpoints.
He states that the fruits of such actions persist through long spans of time, described as lasting up to the cosmic dissolution (bhūta-saṃplava), emphasizing the vast temporal reach of karmic law.
Even when not named directly, the teaching presumes a cosmos ordered under a supreme sovereign principle—classically Vishnu in the Purana—within which dharma and karma operate reliably across yugas and up to pralaya.