History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v6.c82.21

History of Dharmaśāstra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v6.c82.21

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v6.c82.21

In the Bhagavadgītā the word kāla is used in the sense of 'time in general or proper time' in several passages (such as IV. 2, VIII 7 and 27, VIII. 23, XVII. 20) and Kāla is identified with Kṛṣṇa as Supreme Lord in one of his super-eminent manifestations in X. 30 and 33 (I am Kāla among those that seize and I am Kāla that is imperishable) and XI. 32 (I am Kāla, that has increased (in strength) and that brings about the destruction of the worlds)

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Bhagavadgītā — Vyāsa, Sanskrit