Harivamsha App.I.2
Harivaṃśa App.I.2
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App.I.2.1
janamejaya uvāca
manvantarasya saṃkhyānaṃ yugānāṃ ca mahāmate /
Janamejaya said:
The reckoning of a manvantara and of the yugas, O wise one,
App.I.2.2
brahmaṇo 'hnaḥ pramāṇaṃ ca vaktum arhasi me dvija //
and the measure of a day of Brahmā—you ought to tell me, O twice-born!
App.I.2.3
vaiśaṃpāyana uvāca
ahorātraṃ vibhajate sūryo mānena laukikam /
Vaiśaṃpāyana said:
The sun divides the worldly day and night by measure;
App.I.2.4
tām upādāya gaṇanāṃ śṛṇu saṃkhyām ariṃdama //
taking that calculation, listen to the reckoning, O subduer of enemies!
App.I.2.5
nimeṣaiḥ pañcadaśabhiḥ kāṣṭhā triṃśat tu tāḥ kalā /
By fifteen blinks of the eye is a kāṣṭhā; thirty of them are a kalā;
App.I.2.6
triṃśatkalo muhūrtas tu triṃśatā tair manīṣiṇaḥ //
a muhūrta has thirty kalās; and by thirty of them, the wise
App.I.2.7
ahorātram iti prāhuś candrasūryagatiṃ nṛpa /
call a day and night, [measured by] the movement of the moon and sun, O king.
App.I.2.7x1-1
raver gativiśeṣeṇa sarveṣv eteṣu nityaśaḥ //
by the particular motion of the sun, continually across all these [divisions];
App.I.2.8
viśeṣeṇa tu sarveṣu ahorātraṃ ca nityaśaḥ //
and specifically in all of them, the day-and-night continually.
App.I.2.9
ahotrātrāḥ pañcadaśa pakṣa ity abhiśabditaḥ /
Fifteen days and nights are designated as a fortnight;
App.I.2.10
pakṣau dvau ca smṛto māso dvau māsāv ṛtur ucyate //
two fortnights are considered a month, and two months are called a season.
App.I.2.11
abdaṃ dvyayanam uktaṃ tu ayanaṃ tv ṛtubhis tribhiḥ /
A year is said to be two solstitial halves, but a solstitial half consists of three seasons:
App.I.2.12
dakṣiṇaṃ cottaraṃ caiva saṃkhyānārthaviśāradaiḥ //
the southern and the northern, by those skilled in the calculation of time.
App.I.2.13
mānenānena yo māsaḥ pakṣadvayasamāhitaḥ /
A month by this measure, composed of two fortnights,
App.I.2.14
pitṝṇāṃ tad ahorātram iti kālavido viduḥ //
is one day and night for the ancestors, so know the knowers of time.
App.I.2.15
kṛṣṇapakṣas tv ahas teṣāṃ śuklapakṣas tu śarvarī /
The dark fortnight is their day, and the bright fortnight is their night;
App.I.2.16
kṛṣṇapakṣe tv ahaḥśrāddhaṃ pitṝṇāṃ vartate nṛpa //
in the dark fortnight their daylight śrāddha occurs, O king.
App.I.2.17
mānuṣeṇa tu mānena yo vai saṃvatsaraḥ smṛtaḥ /
That which is known as a year by human reckoning
App.I.2.17x2-1
divyam ekam ahas tena tathā māsābdasaṃsthitiḥ /
is one divine day, and likewise is the arrangement of months and years.
App.I.2.18
devānāṃ tad ahorātraṃ divā caivottarāyaṇam //
That is a day and night of the gods, and day is the northern course.
App.I.2.18x3-1
divyam abdam ahorātram ahas tasyottarāyaṇam /
A divine year is a day and night: its day is the northern course,
App.I.2.19
dakṣiṇāyanaṃ smṛtā rātriḥ prājñais tattvārthakovidaiḥ //
and the southern course is considered the night by the wise, skilled in the true meaning.
App.I.2.20
divyam abdaṃ daśaguṇam ahorātraṃ manoḥ smṛtam /
A divine year multiplied by ten is known as a day and night of a Manu;
App.I.2.21
ahorātraṃ daśaguṇaṃ mānavaḥ pakṣa ucyate //
ten times that day and night is called a fortnight of a Manu;
App.I.2.22
pakṣo daśaguṇo māso māsair dvādaśabhir guṇaiḥ /
the fortnight multiplied by ten is a month; multiplied by twelve months,
App.I.2.23
ṛtur manūnāṃ saṃproktaḥ prājñais tattvārthadarśibhiḥ //
a season of the Manus is declared by the wise who perceive the true meaning.
App.I.2.24
ṛtutrayeṇa tv ayanaṃ taddvayenaiva vatsaraḥ /
A solstitial half consists of three seasons, and by two of them is a year;
App.I.2.24x4-1
ṣaḍbhis tair vatsaraṃ proktaṃ tena saṃkhyā nibadhyate /
by six of them a year is stated, by which the calculation is bound.
App.I.2.25
catvāry eva sahasrāṇi varṣāṇāṃ tu kṛtaṃ yugam //
The Kṛta Yuga consists of four thousand years;
App.I.2.26
tāvac chatī bhavet saṃdhyā saṃdhyāṃśaś ca tathā nṛpa /
its dawn twilight lasts so many hundreds [of years], and its dusk twilight likewise, O king.
App.I.2.27
trīṇi varṣasahasrāṇi tretā syāt parimāṇataḥ /
The Tretā should be three thousand years in measure;
App.I.2.28
tasyāś ca triśatī saṃdhyā saṃdhyāṃśaś ca tathāparaḥ //
and its dawn twilight lasts three hundred [years], and its dusk twilight likewise another [three hundred].
App.I.2.29
tathā varṣasahasre dve dvāparaṃ parikīrtitam //
Likewise, the Dvāpara is proclaimed to be two thousand years;
App.I.2.30
tasyāpi dviśatī saṃdhyā saṃdhyāśaś ca tathāvidhaḥ //
its dawn twilight is also two hundred, and its dusk twilight of the same kind.
App.I.2.31
kalir varṣasahasraṃ tu saṃkhyāto 'tra manīṣibhiḥ /
The Kali is calculated here by the wise as one thousand years;
App.I.2.32
tasyāpi śatikā saṃdhyā saṃdhyāṃśaś caiva tadvidhaḥ //
its dawn twilight is also one hundred, and its dusk twilight of the same kind.
App.I.2.33
eṣā dvādaśasāhasrī yugasaṃkhyā prakīrtitā /
This is proclaimed as the reckoning of the yugas consisting of twelve thousand [years];
App.I.2.34
divyenānena mānena yugasaṃkhyāṃ nibodha me //
understand from me the calculation of the yugas by this divine reckoning.
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sasarja sa punas tāta jagat sarvam idaṃ vibhuḥ /
The all-pervading lord created again all this universe, O dear one:
App.I.2.35
kṛtaṃ tretā dvāparaṃ ca kaliś caiva caturyugam /
Kṛta, Tretā, Dvāpara, and Kali—this is the caturyuga.
App.I.2.36
yugaṃ tad ekasaptatyā guṇitaṃ nṛpasattama /
That yuga multiplied by seventy-one, O best of kings,
App.I.2.37
manvantaram iti proktaṃ saṃkhyānārthaviśāradaiḥ //
is declared a manvantara by those skilled in the calculation of time.
App.I.2.38
ayanaṃ cāpi tat proktaṃ dve 'yane dakṣiṇottare //
It is also declared a course; the two courses are the southern and northern.
App.I.2.39
manuḥ pralīyate hy atra samāpte 'thāyane prabho /
A Manu is indeed dissolved here when the course ends, O lord.
App.I.2.39x6-1
caturyugasahasraṃ tu brahmaṇo dinam ucyate /
A thousand caturyugas is called a day of Brahmā;
App.I.2.39x6-2
rātriś caitāvatī tasya tābhyāṃ pakṣādikalpanā /
and his night is of the same length; from those two proceeds the arrangement of fortnights and the rest.
App.I.2.40
tato 'paro manuḥ kālam etāvantaṃ bhavaty uta /
Then another Manu exists for so much time;
App.I.2.41
samatīteṣu rājendra proktaḥ saṃvatsaraḥ sa vai //
when these have passed, O best of kings, that is indeed declared a year.
App.I.2.42
tad eva cāyutaṃ proktaṃ muninā tattvadarśinā /
And that is declared as ten thousand [yugas] by the seer who sees reality;
App.I.2.43
brahmaṇas tad ahaḥ proktaṃ kalpaś ceti sa śabdyate //
that is stated to be a day of Brahmā, and it is designated a kalpa.
App.I.2.43x7-1
sahasrayugaparyantam ahar yad brahmaṇo viduḥ /
Those people who know that the day of Brahmā extends for a thousand yugas,
App.I.2.43x7-2
rātriṃ yugasahasrānte te 'horātravido janāḥ /
and the night ends after a thousand yugas, are knowers of day and night.
App.I.2.44
sahasrayugaparyantā yā niśā procyate budhaiḥ /
The night which is declared by the wise to extend for a thousand yugas,
App.I.2.45
nimajjaty apsu yatrorvī saśailavanakānanā //
during which the earth, with its mountains, forests, and groves, sinks into the waters—
App.I.2.46
tasmin yugasahasre tu pūrṇe bharatasattama /
when that thousand yugas is complete, O best of Bharatas,
App.I.2.47
brāhme divasaparyante kalpo niḥśeṣa ucyate //
at the close of the day of Brahmā, the kalpa is said to be ended without remainder.
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