Vayu Purana

कृते पुनः क्रिया नास्ति कुत एवाकृतक्रिया। सकृदेव कृतं सर्वं यद्वै लोके कृताकृतम् ।। ६१.

In the age of truth, there is no action, so how could there be action not done? Whatever is done or not done in the world is accomplished at once.

श्रोतव्यं वै श्रुतं वापि तथैवासाधुसाधुता। ज्ञातव्यञ्चाथ मन्तव्यं स्प्रष्टव्यं भोज्यमेव च। द्रष्टव्यञ्चाथ श्रोतव्यं ज्ञातव्यं वाथ किञ्चन ।। ६१.

What is to be heard, what has been heard, likewise what is good or bad, what is to be known, considered, touched, eaten, seen, heard, or known in any way—

दर्शितं यदनेनैव ज्ञानं तद्वै सुरर्षिणाम् । यद्वै दर्शितवानेष कस्तदन्वेष्टुमर्हति । सर्वाणि सर्वान्सर्वांश्च भगवानेव सोऽब्रवीत् ।। ६१.

The knowledge shown by this one is indeed that of the divine seers; what he has revealed, who is fit to seek further? The Blessed Lord alone has spoken all things, all beings, and all forms.

यदा यत्क्रियते येन तदा तत्सोऽभिमन्यते। येनेदं क्रियते पूर्वं तदन्येन विभावितम् ।। ६१.

Whenever something is done by someone, at that time he claims it as his own; but whatever was previously done, that was manifested by another.

यदा तु क्रियते किञ्चित्केनचिद्वाङ्मयं क्वचित्। तेनैव तत्कृतं पूर्वं कर्त्तॄणां प्रतिभाति वै ।। ६१.

Whenever anything is spoken or done by anyone, it appears to the doers as if it was done by them before.

विरक्तञ्चातिरिक्तञ्च ज्ञानाज्ञाने प्रियाप्रिये। धर्माधर्मौ सुखं दुःखं मृत्युश्चामृतमेव च। ऊर्द्ध्वन्तिर्यगधोभागस्तस्यैवादृष्टकारणम् ।। ६१.

Detachment and excess, knowledge and ignorance, what is dear and what is not, righteousness and unrighteousness, happiness and sorrow, death and immortality, upward, across, and downward directions—all these arise for him from unseen causes.

स्वायम्भुवोऽथ ज्येष्ठस्य ब्रह्मणः परमेष्ठिनः। प्रत्येकविद्यम्भवति त्रेतास्विह पुनः पुनः ।। ६१.

In the era of Svayambhuva and of the eldest, Brahma the Supreme Lord, individual knowledge comes forth again and again in the Treta age here.

व्यस्यते ह्येकविद्यन्तद्द्वापरेषु पुनः पुनः । ब्रह्मा चैतदुवाचादौ तस्मिन् वैवस्वतेऽन्तरे ।। ६१.

That single knowledge is dispersed repeatedly in the Dvapara ages; Brahma spoke this at the beginning, in the interval of Vaivasvata.

आवर्त्तमाना ऋषयो युगाख्यासु पुनः पुनः। कुर्वन्ति संहिता ह्येते जायमानाः परस्परम् ।। ६१.

The sages, as the cycles called yugas recur, repeatedly compose these collections, which are born from one another.

अष्टाशीतिसहस्राणि श्रुतर्षीणां स्मृतानि वै। ता एव संहिता ह्येते आवर्त्तन्ते पुनः पुनः ।। ६१.

Eighty-eight thousand are remembered as the shrutarshis; these collections themselves return again and again.

श्रिता दक्षिणपन्थानं ये श्मशानानि भेजिरे। युगे युगे तु ताः शाखा व्यस्यन्ते तैः पुनः पुनः ।। ६१.

Those who have followed the southern path and entered cremation grounds—their branches are scattered again and again in each age.

द्वापरेष्विव सर्वेषु संहिताश्च श्रुतर्षिभिः। तेषां गोत्रेष्विमाः शाखा भवन्तीह पुनः पुनः। ताः शाखास्तत्र कर्त्तारो भवन्तीह युगक्षयात् ।। ६१.

Just as in all Dvapara ages, the collections by the shrutarshis, these branches arise again and again in their lineages; those branches, their creators, come forth here at the end of each age.

एवमेव तु विज्ञेयं व्यतीतानागतेष्विह। मन्वन्तरेषु सर्वेषु शाखाप्रणयनानि वै ।। ६१.

Thus, it should be understood that in all past and future manvantaras, the creation of branches occurs here.

अतीतेषु अतीतानि वर्त्तन्ते साम्प्रतेषु च। भविष्याणि च यानि स्युर्वर्ण्यन्तेऽनागतेष्वपि ।। ६१.

What has passed exists in the past, and also in the present; what will be is described even in the future.

पूर्वेण पश्चिमं ज्ञेयं वर्त्तमानेन चोभयम्। एतेन क्रमयोगेन मन्वन्तरविनिश्चयः ।। ६१.

By the previous, the later is known, and by the present, both; through this sequence and method, the determination of manvantaras is made.

एवं देवाश्च पितर ऋषयो मनवश्च ये। मन्त्रैः सहोर्द्ध्वं गच्छन्ति ह्यावर्त्तन्ते च तैः सह ।। ६१.

Thus, the gods, ancestors, sages, and Manus, together with mantras, ascend and return along with them.

जनलोकात्सुराः सर्वे पशुकल्पात्पुनः पुनः। पर्याप्तकाले सम्प्राप्ते सम्भूता नैव नस्य (?) तु ।। ६१.

All the gods from Janaloka, again and again from the animal creation, when the appointed time arrives, are produced, but not destroyed.

अवश्यम्भाविनार्थेन सम्बध्यन्ते तदा तु ते। ततस्ते दोषवज्जन्म पश्यन्ते रागपूर्वकम् ।। ६१.

At that time, they are bound by what must inevitably occur; then, seeing birth as flawed, they perceive it with attachment.

निवर्त्तते तदा वृत्तिस्तेषामादोषदर्शनात् । एवं देव युगानीह दशकृत्वा निवर्त्तते ।। ६१.

Then their conduct ceases, due to seeing no fault; thus, the divine age here ends ten times.

जनलोकात्तपोलोकं गच्छन्तीहानिवर्त्तनम्। एवं देवयुगानीह व्यतीतानि सहस्रशः। निधनं ब्रह्मलोके वै गतानि मुनिभिस्सह ।। ६१.

From Janaloka, they go to Tapoloka, without return; thus, the divine ages here, thousands have passed, ending in Brahmaloka together with the sages.

न शक्यमानुपूर्व्येण तेषां वक्तुं सविस्तरान् । अनादित्वाच्च कालस्य असङ्ख्यानाच्च सर्वशः। मन्वन्तराण्यतीतानि यानि कल्पैः पुरा सह ।। ६१.

It is not possible to recount them in order and in detail, because time is without beginning and all are innumerable; the manvantaras that have passed, together with the kalpas of old.

पितृभिर्मुनिभिर्देवैः सार्द्धं सप्तार्षिभिश्च वै। कालेन प्रतिसृष्टानां युगानाञ्च निवर्तनम् ।। ६१.

With the ancestors, sages, gods, and the seven rishis, the return of ages occurs for those created by time.

एतेन क्रमयोगेन कल्पमन्वन्तराणि तु। सप्रजानि व्यतीतानि शतशोऽथ सहस्रशः ।। ६१.

By this sequence and method, the kalpas and manvantaras, together with their beings, have passed by the hundreds and thousands.

मन्वन्तरान्ते संहारः संहारान्ते च सम्भवः। देवतानामृषीणाञ्च मनोः पितृगणस्य च ।। ६१.

At the end of a Manvantara comes dissolution, and after dissolution, there is a new arising of the gods, the seers, Manu, and the hosts of ancestors.

न शक्यमानुपूर्व्येण वक्तुं वर्षशतैरपि। विस्तरस्तु निसर्गस्य संहारस्य च सर्वशः। मन्वन्तरस्य संख्यां तु मानुषेण निबोधत ।। ६१.

It is not possible to describe in sequence, even in hundreds of years, the full extent of creation and dissolution; but listen to the reckoning of a Manvantara as known among humans.

देवतानामृषीणाञ्च सङ्ख्यानार्थनिशारदैः। त्रिंशत्कोट्यस्तु संपूर्णाः सङ्ख्याताः सङ्ख्यया द्विजैः ।। ६१.

The wise, skilled in calculation, have determined that the complete number of gods and seers is three hundred million, counted precisely by learned twice-born men.

सप्तषष्टिस्तथान्यानि नियुतानि च सङ्ख्यया। विंशतिश्च सहस्राणि कालोऽयं सोधिकान् विना ।। ६१.

There are also sixty-seven niyutas, and twenty thousand more, according to the reckoning—this is the time, excluding the fractions.

मन्वन्तरस्य सङ्ख्यैषा मानुषेण प्रकीर्तिता। वत्सरेणैव दिव्येन प्रवक्ष्याम्यन्तरम्मनोः ।। ६१.

This is the number of a Manvantara as declared in human reckoning; now I will tell you, by the divine year, the interval between Manus.

अष्टौ शतसहस्राणि दिव्यया सङ्ख्यया स्मृतम्। द्विपञ्चाशत्तथान्यानि सहस्राण्यधिकानि तु ।। ६१.

It is remembered as eight hundred thousand by the divine count, and fifty-two thousand more are to be added.