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Bhagavatapurana 5.14.29

Bhāgavatapurāṇa 5.14.29

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5.14.29

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kadācid īśvarasya bhagavato viṣṇoś cakrāt paramāṇv-ādi-dvi-parārdhāpavarga-kālopalakṣaṇāt parivartitena vayasā raṃhasā harata ābrahma-tṛṇa-stambādīnāṃ bhūtānām animiṣato miṣatāṃ vitrasta-hṛdayas tam eveśvaraṃ kāla-cakra-nijāyudhaṃ sākṣād bhagavantaṃ yajña-puruṣam anādṛtya pākhaṇḍa-devatāḥ kaṅka-gṛdhra-baka-vaṭa-prāyā ārya-samaya-parihṛtāḥ sāṅketyenābhidhatte //

29. Sometimes, his heart gets filled with fear as he thinks of the Chakra of the glorious Vishnu the supreme Ruler, which in the form of Time from the minutest point to the length of Brahma's life, rolls down in its incomprehensible velocity, the ages of man and carries away without a pause all creatures from Brahma to the clump of grass and the tiniest animalculae, that are, though all awake, quite unable to counteract that force; all the same he neglects Yagna Purusha, no other than the glorious supreme Being whose true weapon is the wheel of Time, and he betakes himself to the Pakhanda deities who are verily kites, vultures, cranes or banian trees, having a place by mere convention and not recognised in the religion of the Aryas.

S. Subba Rau 1928, The Srimad Bhagavatam

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