Shloka 11
Adhyaya 45 — Jaimini’s Cosmological Questions and the Opening of Markandeya’s Account of Primary Creation
यावत्यः सृष्टयश्चैव यावन्तः प्रलयास्तथा ।
यथा कल्पविभागश्च या च मन्वन्तरस्थितिḥ ॥
yāvatyaḥ sṛṣṭayaś caiva yāvantaḥ pralayās tathā | yathā kalpavibhāgaś ca yā ca manvantarasthitiḥ ||
造化有多少种，毁灭（溶解）亦有多少种；诸劫（kalpa）的分段如何；而一段摩奴期（manvantara）的时量与结构为何——请为我宣说。
FAQs
The request expands perspective from personal time to cosmic time; ethical steadiness arises when one sees one’s life as a brief segment within repeating cycles.
Directly concerns sarga and pratisarga (cycles of creation/re-creation) and manvantara (epochal administration), core purāṇic lakṣaṇas.
Kalpa divisions can symbolize graded states of consciousness; repeated ‘creation/dissolution’ parallels the continual arising and subsiding of experience in meditation.