[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Epic, Poetry, Drama & Narrative](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit) › [The Mahābhārata and its versions](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata) › [Harivamsha](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.harivamsa) › App.I.2 # Harivamsha App.I.2 Harivaṃśa App.I.2 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [App.I.2.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.harivamsa.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, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [App.I.2.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.harivamsa.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! > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [App.I.2.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.harivamsa.App.I.2.3) vaiśaṃpāyana uvāca ahorātraṃ vibhajate sūryo mānena laukikam / > Vaiśaṃpāyana said: > The sun divides the worldly day and night by measure; > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [App.I.2.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.harivamsa.App.I.2.4) tām upādāya gaṇanāṃ śṛṇu saṃkhyām ariṃdama // > taking that calculation, listen to the reckoning, O subduer of enemies! > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [App.I.2.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.harivamsa.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; > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [App.I.2.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.harivamsa.App.I.2.6) triṃśatkalo muhūrtas tu triṃśatā tair manīṣiṇaḥ // > a muhūrta has thirty kalās; and by thirty of them, the wise > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [App.I.2.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.harivamsa.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. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [App.I.2.7x1-1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.harivamsa.App.I.2.7x1-1) raver gativiśeṣeṇa sarveṣv eteṣu nityaśaḥ // > by the particular motion of the sun, continually across all these \[divisions\]; > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [App.I.2.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.harivamsa.App.I.2.8) viśeṣeṇa tu sarveṣu ahorātraṃ ca nityaśaḥ // > and specifically in all of them, the day-and-night continually. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [App.I.2.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.harivamsa.App.I.2.9) ahotrātrāḥ pañcadaśa pakṣa ity abhiśabditaḥ / > Fifteen days and nights are designated as a fortnight; > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [App.I.2.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.harivamsa.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. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [App.I.2.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.harivamsa.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: > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [App.I.2.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.harivamsa.App.I.2.12) dakṣiṇaṃ cottaraṃ caiva saṃkhyānārthaviśāradaiḥ // > the southern and the northern, by those skilled in the calculation of time. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [App.I.2.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.harivamsa.App.I.2.13) mānenānena yo māsaḥ pakṣadvayasamāhitaḥ / > A month by this measure, composed of two fortnights, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [App.I.2.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.harivamsa.App.I.2.14) pitṝṇāṃ tad ahorātram iti kālavido viduḥ // > is one day and night for the ancestors, so know the knowers of time. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [App.I.2.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.harivamsa.App.I.2.15) kṛṣṇapakṣas tv ahas teṣāṃ śuklapakṣas tu śarvarī / > The dark fortnight is their day, and the bright fortnight is their night; > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [App.I.2.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.harivamsa.App.I.2.16) kṛṣṇapakṣe tv ahaḥśrāddhaṃ pitṝṇāṃ vartate nṛpa // > in the dark fortnight their daylight śrāddha occurs, O king. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [App.I.2.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.harivamsa.App.I.2.17) mānuṣeṇa tu mānena yo vai saṃvatsaraḥ smṛtaḥ / > That which is known as a year by human reckoning > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [App.I.2.17x2-1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.harivamsa.App.I.2.17x2-1) divyam ekam ahas tena tathā māsābdasaṃsthitiḥ / > is one divine day, and likewise is the arrangement of months and years. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [App.I.2.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.harivamsa.App.I.2.18) devānāṃ tad ahorātraṃ divā caivottarāyaṇam // > That is a day and night of the gods, and day is the northern course. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [App.I.2.18x3-1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.harivamsa.App.I.2.18x3-1) divyam abdam ahorātram ahas tasyottarāyaṇam / > A divine year is a day and night: its day is the northern course, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [App.I.2.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.harivamsa.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. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [App.I.2.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.harivamsa.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; > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [App.I.2.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.harivamsa.App.I.2.21) ahorātraṃ daśaguṇaṃ mānavaḥ pakṣa ucyate // > ten times that day and night is called a fortnight of a Manu; > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [App.I.2.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.harivamsa.App.I.2.22) pakṣo daśaguṇo māso māsair dvādaśabhir guṇaiḥ / > the fortnight multiplied by ten is a month; multiplied by twelve months, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [App.I.2.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.harivamsa.App.I.2.23) ṛtur manūnāṃ saṃproktaḥ prājñais tattvārthadarśibhiḥ // > a season of the Manus is declared by the wise who perceive the true meaning. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [App.I.2.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.harivamsa.App.I.2.24) ṛtutrayeṇa tv ayanaṃ taddvayenaiva vatsaraḥ / > A solstitial half consists of three seasons, and by two of them is a year; > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [App.I.2.24x4-1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.harivamsa.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. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [App.I.2.25](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.harivamsa.App.I.2.25) catvāry eva sahasrāṇi varṣāṇāṃ tu kṛtaṃ yugam // > The Kṛta Yuga consists of four thousand years; > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [App.I.2.26](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.harivamsa.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. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [App.I.2.27](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.harivamsa.App.I.2.27) trīṇi varṣasahasrāṇi tretā syāt parimāṇataḥ / > The Tretā should be three thousand years in measure; > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [App.I.2.28](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.harivamsa.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 \[three hundred\]. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [App.I.2.29](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.harivamsa.App.I.2.29) tathā varṣasahasre dve dvāparaṃ parikīrtitam // > Likewise, the Dvāpara is proclaimed to be two thousand years; > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [App.I.2.30](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.harivamsa.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. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [App.I.2.31](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.harivamsa.App.I.2.31) kalir varṣasahasraṃ tu saṃkhyāto 'tra manīṣibhiḥ / > The Kali is calculated here by the wise as one thousand years; > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [App.I.2.32](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.harivamsa.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. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [App.I.2.33](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.harivamsa.App.I.2.33) eṣā dvādaśasāhasrī yugasaṃkhyā prakīrtitā / > This is proclaimed as the reckoning of the yugas consisting of twelve thousand \[years\]; > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [App.I.2.34](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.harivamsa.App.I.2.34) divyenānena mānena yugasaṃkhyāṃ nibodha me // > understand from me the calculation of the yugas by this divine reckoning. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [App.I.2.34x5-1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.harivamsa.App.I.2.34x5-1) sasarja sa punas tāta jagat sarvam idaṃ vibhuḥ / > The all-pervading lord created again all this universe, O dear one: > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [App.I.2.35](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.harivamsa.App.I.2.35) kṛtaṃ tretā dvāparaṃ ca kaliś caiva caturyugam / > Kṛta, Tretā, Dvāpara, and Kali—this is the caturyuga. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [App.I.2.36](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.harivamsa.App.I.2.36) yugaṃ tad ekasaptatyā guṇitaṃ nṛpasattama / > That yuga multiplied by seventy-one, O best of kings, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [App.I.2.37](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.harivamsa.App.I.2.37) manvantaram iti proktaṃ saṃkhyānārthaviśāradaiḥ // > is declared a manvantara by those skilled in the calculation of time. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [App.I.2.38](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.harivamsa.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. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [App.I.2.39](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.harivamsa.App.I.2.39) manuḥ pralīyate hy atra samāpte 'thāyane prabho / > A Manu is indeed dissolved here when the course ends, O lord. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [App.I.2.39x6-1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.harivamsa.App.I.2.39x6-1) caturyugasahasraṃ tu brahmaṇo dinam ucyate / > A thousand caturyugas is called a day of Brahmā; > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [App.I.2.39x6-2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.harivamsa.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. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [App.I.2.40](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.harivamsa.App.I.2.40) tato 'paro manuḥ kālam etāvantaṃ bhavaty uta / > Then another Manu exists for so much time; > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [App.I.2.41](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.harivamsa.App.I.2.41) samatīteṣu rājendra proktaḥ saṃvatsaraḥ sa vai // > when these have passed, O best of kings, that is indeed declared a year. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [App.I.2.42](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.harivamsa.App.I.2.42) tad eva cāyutaṃ proktaṃ muninā tattvadarśinā / > And that is declared as ten thousand \[yugas\] by the seer who sees reality; > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [App.I.2.43](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.harivamsa.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. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [App.I.2.43x7-1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.harivamsa.App.I.2.43x7-1) sahasrayugaparyantam ahar yad brahmaṇo viduḥ / > Those people who know that the day of Brahmā extends for a thousand yugas, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [App.I.2.43x7-2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.harivamsa.App.I.2.43x7-2) rātriṃ yugasahasrānte te 'horātravido janāḥ / > and the night ends after a thousand yugas, are knowers of day and night. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [App.I.2.44](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.harivamsa.App.I.2.44) sahasrayugaparyantā yā niśā procyate budhaiḥ / > The night which is declared by the wise to extend for a thousand yugas, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [App.I.2.45](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.harivamsa.App.I.2.45) nimajjaty apsu yatrorvī saśailavanakānanā // > during which the earth, with its mountains, forests, and groves, sinks into the waters— > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [App.I.2.46](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.harivamsa.App.I.2.46) tasmin yugasahasre tu pūrṇe bharatasattama / > when that thousand yugas is complete, O best of Bharatas, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [App.I.2.47](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.harivamsa.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. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.harivamsa~en-mt.App.I.2.1) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.harivamsa.App.I.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.harivamsa.App.I.2) · Pramāṇa