An Index to the Names in the Mahabharata, with Short Explanations and a Concordance to the Bombay and Calcutta Editions and P. C. Roy's Translation c5.s9.311.4

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from me spring the *Ṛg.-*, *Sāma.-*, *Yajur.-*, and *Atharva-veda*; I am the *Saṃvartaka* fire, the *Saṃvartaka* sun, and the *Saṃvartaka* fire (!) (v. 12966 foll.); the stars are the pores of my skin, etc. When virtue and morality decrease, I create myself into new forms; in the *Kṛta* age I become white, etc. (see §§ 426, 427, 428, 429). When the end comes, I alone in the form of *Kāla* destroy the three worlds, etc. The grandsire of all creatures (*Sarvalokapitāmaha*) is half of my body. I am the bearer of the conch-shell, the discus, and the mace. For a period of 1,000 cycles of *yugas* I sleep, overwhelming all creatures in insensibility, and I atay here, in the form of a boy though I am old, until *Brahmán* wakes up; under the form of *Brahmán* I have repeatedly granted thee boons. When *Brahmán* (*Sarvalokapitāmaha*) awakes, I will then alone create all creatures." Then he disappeared, and I (*Mārkaṇḍeya*) beheld this creation start into life. And that deity is *Kṛshṇa*, thy relative. In consequence of the boon granted by him memory does not fail me, my life is long, and death is under my control (v. 13002). Then all bowed down unto Janārdana (i.e. *Kṛshṇa*), who comforted them (III, 189).—§ 460: *Yudhishṭhira* asked him about the future cause of the government (*sāmrajya*) of the earth. *Mārkaṇḍeya*, having given a short description of the other *yugas*, described in detail the *Kali-yuga* (*b*);