All Books | Shrimad Bhagavatam | Canto 4: The Creation of the Fourth Order |CHAPTER 4: The Four Categories of Universal Annihilation

SB 12.4.38

नित्यो नैमित्तिकश्चैव तथा प्राकृतिको लय: ।
आत्यन्तिकश्च कथित: कालस्य गतिरीद‍ृशी ॥ ३८ ॥

nityo naimittikaś caiva
tathā prākṛtiko layaḥ
ātyantikaś ca kathitaḥ
kālasya gatir īdṛśī

Synonyms

nityaḥ — continuous; naimittikaḥ — occasional; ca — and; eva — indeed; tathā — also; prākṛtikaḥ — natural; layaḥ — annihilation; ātyantikaḥ — final; ca — and; kathitaḥ — are described; kālasya — of time; gatiḥ — the progress; īdṛśī — like this.

Translation

In this way the progress of time is described in terms of the four kinds of annihilation — continuous, occasional, elemental and final.

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