Mahābhārata · Adhyāya 12.317
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12.317.1
तत्त्वानां सर्गसङ्ख्या च कालसङ्ख्या तथैव च ।
मया प्रोक्ताऽनुपूर्वेण संहारमपि मे शृणु ॥ १२.३१७.१ ॥
I have told in due order the number of creations of the elements and the number of time-periods. Now hear from me also the dissolution.
12.317.2
यता संहरते जन्तून्ससर्ज च पुनः पुनः ।
अनादिनिधनो ब्रह्मा नित्यश्चाक्षर एव च। ॥ १२.३१७.२ ॥
Restraining himself, he withdraws living beings and creates them again and again. Brahmā, without beginning or end, is eternal and imperishable.
12.317.3
अहःक्षयमथो बुद्ध्वा निशि स्वप्नमनास्तथा ।
चोदयामास भगवानव्यक्तोऽहंकृतं नरम् ॥ १२.३१७.३ ॥
Knowing the end of the day, and at night free of dream, the blessed unmanifest Lord likewise impelled the ego-bearing man.
12.317.4
ततः शतसहस्रांशुरव्यक्तेनाभिचोदितः ।
कृत्वा द्वादशधाऽऽत्मानमादित्यो ज्वलदग्निवत् ॥ १२.३१७.४ ॥
Then the thousand-rayed Sun, impelled by the unmanifest, divided himself twelvefold and became like a blazing fire.
12.317.5
चतुर्विधं प्रजाजातं निर्दहत्याशु तेजसा ।
जराय्वण्डस्वेदजातमुद्भिज्जं स नराधिप ॥ १२.३१७.५ ॥
With his radiance he swiftly burns up the fourfold host of creatures: those born of the womb, of the egg, of sweat, and of sprouting. O lord of men!
12.317.6
एतदुन्मेषमात्रेण विनष्टं स्थाणुजङ्गमम् ।
कूर्मपृष्ठसमा भूमिर्भवत्यथ समन्ततः ॥ १२.३१७.६ ॥
In the blink of an eye, all that is immobile and mobile is destroyed; then the earth, on every side, becomes like the back of a tortoise.
12.317.7
जगद्दग्ध्वाऽमितबलः केवलां जगर्ती ततः ।
अम्भसा बलिना क्षिप्रमापूरयति सर्वशः ॥ १२.३१७.७ ॥
Having burned the whole world, the one of immeasurable might then quickly fills the entire earth on every side with mighty water.
12.317.8
ततः कालाग्निमासाद्य तदम्भो याति संक्षयम् ।
विनष्टेऽम्भसि राजेन्द्र जाज्वलत्यनलो महान् ॥ १२.३१७.८ ॥
Then that water, reaching the fire of time, goes to destruction; and when the water is destroyed, O lord of kings, a great fire blazes forth.
12.317.9
तमप्रमेयातिबलं ज्वलमानं विभावसुम् ।
ऊष्माणं सर्वभूतानां सप्ताचिंपमथाञ्जसा ॥ १२.३१७.९ ॥
That blazing Vibhāvasu, of immeasurable and great might, the heat of all beings, seven-flamed — then, readily.
12.317.10
भक्षयामास भगवान्वायुरष्टात्मको बली ।
विचरन्नमितप्राणस्तिर्यगूर्ध्वमधस्तथा ॥ १२.३१७.१० ॥
The mighty lord Wind, eight-fold in nature, devoured it, moving about with boundless breath, across, upward and downward alike.
12.317.11
तमप्रतिबलं भीममाकाशं ग्रसते पुनः ।
आकाशमप्यभिनदन्मनो ग्रसति चारिकम् ॥ १२.३१७.११ ॥
The terrible one of matchless might is again devoured by ether; and the roaring ether is in turn devoured by the restless mind.
12.317.12
मनो ग्रसति सर्वात्मा सोहंकारः प्रजापतिः ।
अहंकारो महानात्मा भूतभव्यभविष्यवित् ॥ १२.३१७.१२ ॥
The Self of all, Prajāpati together with egoity, devours the mind; and egoity, the great self, is the knower of what has been, what is, and what will be.
12.317.13
तमप्यनुपमात्मानं विश्वं शंभुः प्रजापतिः ।
अणिमा लघिमा प्राप्तिरीशानो ज्योतिरव्ययः ॥ १२.३१७.१३ ॥
That incomparable self, the auspicious lord of creatures of the universe, is called minuteness, lightness, attainment, the lord, the imperishable light.
12.317.14
सर्वतः पाणिपादं तत्सर्वतोक्षिशिरोमुखम् ।
सर्वतः श्रुतिमल्लोके सर्वमावृत्य तिष्ठति ॥ १२.३१७.१४ ॥
It has hands and feet everywhere, eyes, heads and faces everywhere, hearing everywhere; enveloping everything in the world, it stands.
12.317.15
हृदयं सर्वभूतानां पर्वणाऽङ्गुष्ठमात्रकः ।
अणुग्रसत्यनन्तो हि महात्मा विश्वमीश्वरः ॥ १२.३१७.१५ ॥
The heart of all beings, minute as a thumb's joint, the endless great self, the lord, devours the universe.
12.317.16
ततः समभवत्सर्वमक्षयाव्ययमव्रणम् ।
भूतभव्यभविष्याणां स्रष्टारमनघं तथा ॥ १२.३१७.१६ ॥
Then everything came into being — the imperishable, the indestructible, the unwounded — the creator of past, present and future beings, the sinless one likewise.
12.317.17
एषोप्ययस्ते राजेन्द्र यथावत्समुदाहृतः ।
अध्यात्ममधिभूतं च श्रूयतां चाधिदैवतम् ॥ १२.३१७.१७ ॥
O lord of kings, this too has been set out for you as it is; now hear also the inner self, the elemental and the divine.