Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c5.516

c5.516

(32-33) Mṛtyu and Jarā are the consorts of Prakṛṣṭa-jvara and daughters of Kāla. And, if they cease to exist, Brahmā's creation would also cease. (For Brahmā's creation individual souls with the will for action are necessary. He cannot create a soul of his own. So death is a pre-condition of creation, birth. If there is no death there is no birth also. There is a school of thought which maintains that if there is no death but only birth there will not be space on earth for the living, and therefore birth will stop if there is no death.).