[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Purāṇas](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana) › [Garudapurana](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda) › 1.224 # Garudapurana 1.224 Garuḍapurāṇa 1.224 - **Language:** Sanskrit ## Contents - [1.224.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.224.12) — 1 part ### [1.224.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.224.1) śrīgaruḍamahāpurāṇam- 224 sūta uvāca / caturyugasahasrānte brāhmo naimittiko layaḥ / anāvṛṣṭiśca kalpānte jāyate śatavārṣikī // > Sūta said: / At the end of a thousand cycles of the four ages, the conditional dissolution belonging to Brahmā takes place; / and at the end of the kalpa, a drought lasting a hundred years occurs. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.224.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.224.2) utiṣṭhanti tadā raudrā divi sapta divākarāḥ / te tu pītvā jalaṃ sarvaṃ śoṣayanti jagattrayam // > Then seven terrible suns arise in the sky; / having drunk up all the water, they dry up the three worlds. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.224.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.224.3) bhūrbhuvaḥ svarmaharlokaṃ carācaraṃ janastathā / viṣṇuśca rudro bhūtvāsau pātālāni dahatyadhaḥ // > The worlds Bhūḥ, Bhuvaḥ, Svaḥ, Mahar, and Jana, with all that moves and is still, \[dry up\]; / and Viṣṇu, having assumed the form of Rudra, burns the nether worlds below. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.224.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.224.4) viṣṇurdahettrilokañci mukhānmeghān sṛjatyalam / varṣante vai varṣaśataṃ nānāvarṇā mahāghanāḥ // > Viṣṇu burns the three worlds and releases vast clouds from his mouth; / for a hundred years, great clouds of varied colors pour down rain. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.224.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.224.5) viṣṇurūpaḥśataṃ vāti varṣāṇāṃ vāyurūrjitaḥ / viṣṇure kārṇavī bhūte varṣe brahmasvarūpadhṛk / śete 'nantāsane viṣṇurnaṣṭe sthāvarajaṅgame // > A mighty wind, the very form of Viṣṇu, blows for a hundred years. / When the universe has become a single ocean of rain, Viṣṇu, assuming the form of Brahmā, / lies on the serpent couch, all moving and unmoving creation having perished. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.224.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.224.6) suptvā varṣasahasraṃ sa jagadbhūyo 'sṛjaddhariḥ / atha prākṛtikaṃ vakṣye pralayaṃ śṛṇu śaunaka // > Having slept for a thousand years, Hari created the world again. / Now I shall declare the elemental dissolution; listen, O Śaunaka. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.224.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.224.7) pūrṇe saṃvatsaraśate saṃhṛtya sakalaṃ jagat / brahmāṇaṃ nyasya dehe hi mukto yogabalairhariḥ // > When a full hundred \[divine\] years are complete, Hari withdraws the whole universe, / deposits Brahmā within his body, and is liberated by the powers of yoga. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.224.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.224.8) ye gatā brahmaṇaḥ sthānaṃ te 'pi yānti paraṃ padam / anāvṛṣṭyarkasampannā āsanmeghāstathā dvija / śataṃ varṣāṇi varṣadbhirmedhairaṇḍaṃ prapūryate // > Those who have gone to the abode of Brahmā also go to the supreme state. / Drought and the suns arise, and likewise clouds, O twice-born; / by clouds raining for a hundred years, the cosmic egg is filled. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.224.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.224.9) antargatena toyena bhinnamaṇḍaṃ jagatpateḥ / pūrṇe brahmāyuṣi gate bhidyate 'mbhasi līyate // > The cosmic egg of the Lord of the world is split open by the waters within; / when the full lifespan of Brahmā has expired, it breaks and dissolves into the water. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.224.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.224.10) evaṃ sā jagadādhārā toye corvo pralīyate / āpastejasi līyante tejo vāyau pralīyate // > Thus the earth, the foundation of the world, dissolves into water; / water dissolves into fire, and fire dissolves into wind. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.224.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.224.11) vāyuḥ khe khañca bhūtādau viśate ca tadā mahān / mahānprapadyate 'vyaktaṃ prakṛtiḥ puruṣe pare // > Wind dissolves into space, and space into ego; then the cosmic intellect enters \[the ego\]; / the cosmic intellect dissolves into the unmanifest, and primordial nature into the supreme Puruṣa. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.224.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.224.12) śatavarṣaṃ hariḥ śete sṛjatyatha dinagame / avyaktādikrameṇaiva vyaktībhūtaṃ carācaram // > Hari sleeps for a hundred years; then, at the arrival of day, / he creates the moving and unmoving creation, manifested in the order beginning with the unmanifest. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.224.12.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.224.12.p1) iti śrīgāruḍe mahāpurāṇe pūrvakhaṇḍe prathamāṃśākhye ācārakāṇḍe naimittikapralayonāma caturviṃśatyadhikadviśatatamo 'dhyāyaḥ > Thus ends the two hundred and twenty-fourth chapter, entitled 'The Conditional Dissolution', in the Ācārakāṇḍa of the first section of the first part in the glorious Garuḍa Mahāpurāṇa. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.224.1) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.224](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.224) · Pramāṇa