Vayu Purana

भूतापवादिनो हृष्टा मध्यस्था भूतवादिनः। भूतानुवादिनः सक्तास्त्रयो वेदाः प्रवादिनाम् ।। ३८.

Some, delighting in denying the existence of beings, others, impartial, affirming beings, and some, attached to recounting beings—these three are the Vedas among those who expound.

अग्निध्रः काश्यपश्चैव पौलस्त्यो मागधश्च यः। भार्गवो ह्यग्निबाहुश्च शुचिराङ्गिरसस्तथा। ओजस्वी सुबलश्चैव भौत्यस्यैते मनोः सुताः ।। ३८.

Agnidhra, Kāśyapa, Paulastya, Māgadha, Bhārgava, Agnibāhu, Śuci, Āṅgirasa, Ojasvin, and Subala—these are the sons of Manu Bhautya.

सवर्णा मनवो ह्येते चत्वारो ब्रह्मणः सुताः। एको वैवस्वतश्चैव सावर्णो मनुरुच्यते ।। ३८.

These four Manus named Savarṇa are sons of Brahmā; one, called Vaivasvata, is known as Sāvarṇa Manu.

रौच्यो भौत्यश्च यौ तौ तु मनोः पौलहभार्गवौ। भौत्यस्यैवाधिपत्ये तु पूर्णः कल्पस्तु पूर्य्यते ।। ३८.

Raucya and Bhautya, the sons of Manu, are of the Paulaha and Bhārgava lineages; when Bhautya's reign arrives, the full cycle of the kalpa is completed.

सूत उवाच।। निःशेषेषु च सर्वेषु तदा मन्वन्तरेष्विह। अन्तेऽनेकयुगे तस्मिन् क्षीणे संहार उच्यते ।। ३८.

Sūta said: When all the manvantaras here are entirely completed, at the end of many yugas, when they are exhausted, that is called dissolution.

सप्तैते भार्गवा देवा अन्ते मन्वन्तरे तदा। भुक्त्वा त्रैलोक्यमध्यस्था युगाख्यां ह्येकसप्ततिम् ।। ३८.

These seven Bhārgava gods, at the end of the manvantara, having enjoyed the three worlds, remain in the middle for seventy-one yugas.

पितृभिर्मनुभिश्चैव सार्द्धं सप्तर्षिभिस्तु ये। यज्वानश्चैव तेऽप्यन्ये तद्भाक्ताश्चैव तैः सह ।। ३८.

Together with the Pitṛs, Manus, and the seven Ṛṣis, and also other sacrificers and their followers, they remain with them.

महर्लोकं गमिष्यन्ति त्यक्त्वा त्रैलोक्यमीश्वराः। ततस्तेषु गतेषूर्द्ध्वं क्षीणे मन्वन्तरे तदा। अनाधारमिदं सर्वं त्रैलोक्यं वै भविष्यति ।। ३८.

The lords, having abandoned the three worlds, will go to Maharloka; when they have departed upward and the manvantara is exhausted, then all the three worlds will become unsupported.

ततः स्थानानि शून्यानि स्थानिनां तानि वै द्विजाः। प्रभ्रश्यन्ति विमुक्तानि ताराऋक्षग्रहैस्तथा ।। ३८.

Then, O twice-born, the abodes of the residents, being empty, will fall away, released along with the stars, planets, and constellations.

ततस्तेषु व्यतीतेषु त्रैलोक्यस्येश्वरेष्विह। सेन्द्राष्टेषु महर्लोकं यस्मिंस्ते कल्पवासिनः ।। ३८.

When the lords of the three worlds, along with Indra and the others, have departed to Maharloka, those who dwell for a kalpa reside there.

जिताद्याश्च गणा ह्यत्र चाक्षुषान्ताश्चतुर्दश। मन्वन्तरेषु सर्व्वेषु देवास्ते वै महौजसः ।। ३८.

The groups beginning with Jitā and others, fourteen in all up to Cākṣuṣa, these gods of great might exist in all the manvantaras.

ततस्तेषु गतेषूर्द्ध्वं सायोज्यं कल्पवासिनाम्। समेत्य देवास्ते सर्वे प्राप्ते संकलने तदा ।। ३८.

Then, when they have gone upward, the union of those dwelling for a kalpa occurs; all those gods come together at the time of the gathering.

महर्लोकं परित्यज्य गणास्ते वै चतुर्द्दश। सशरीराश्च श्रूयन्ते जनलोकं सहानुगाः ।। ३८.

Abandoning Maharloka, those fourteen groups, it is said, with their bodies and followers, proceed to Janaloka.

एवं देवेष्वतीतेषु महर्लोकाज्जनं प्रति। भूतादिष्ववशिष्टेषु स्थावरान्तेषु चाप्युत ।। ३८.

Thus, when the gods have departed from Maharloka to Janaloka, only the primary elements and immovable beings remain.

शून्येषु लोकस्थानेषु महान्तेषु भूरादिषु। देवेषु च गतेषूर्द्ध्वं सायोज्यं कल्पवासिनाम् ।। ३८.

When the great worlds, beginning with Bhū, are empty, and the gods have gone upward, the union of those dwelling for a kalpa occurs.

संहृत्य तांस्ततो ब्रह्मा देवर्षिपितृदानवान्। संस्थापयति वै सर्गं महदॄष्ट्या युगक्षये ।। ३८.

Then Brahmā, having withdrawn the gods, Ṛṣis, Pitṛs, and Dānavas, establishes creation again with his great vision at the end of the yuga.

तत्र युगसहस्रान्तमहर्यर्द्ब्रह्मणो विदुः। रात्रिं युगसहस्रान्तामहोरात्रविदो जनाः ।। ३८.

There, those who know the day and night of Brahmā say that a day is a thousand yugas and a night is also a thousand yugas.

नैमित्तिकः प्राकृतिको यश्चैवात्यन्तिकोऽर्थतः। त्रिविधः सर्व्वभूतानामित्येष प्रतिसञ्चरः ।। ३८.

The dissolution of all beings is threefold: occasional, elemental, and absolute—so it is explained.

ब्राह्मो नैमित्तिकस्तस्य कल्पदाहः प्रसंयमः। प्रतिसर्गे तु भूतानां प्राकृतः करणक्षयः ।। ३८.

The occasional dissolution is called 'Brahmic,' marked by the burning of the world at the end of an age; in the re-creation, the elemental dissolution is the destruction of the elements of beings.

ज्ञानाच्चात्यन्तिकः प्रोक्तः कारणानामसम्भवः । ततः संहृत्य तान् ब्रह्मा देवांस्त्रैलोक्यवासिनः ।। ३८.

The absolute dissolution is said to arise from knowledge, being the cessation of causes; then, having withdrawn them, Brahmā gathers up the gods and all the inhabitants of the three worlds.

अहरन्ते प्रकुरुते सर्गस्य प्रलयं पुनः। सुषुप्सुर्भगवान् ब्रह्मा प्रजाः संहरते तदा ।। ३८.

At the end of the day, he brings about again the dissolution of creation; the blessed Brahmā, desiring rest, then withdraws the beings.

ततो युगसहस्रान्ते संप्राप्ते च युगक्षये। तत्रात्मस्थाः प्रजाः कर्त्तुं प्रपेदे स प्रजापतिः ।। ३८.

Then, when a thousand ages have passed and the age comes to its end, that Lord of creatures prepares to create beings who are established in himself.

तदा भवत्यनावृष्टिस्तदा सा शत वार्षिकी। तथा यान्यल्पसाराणि सत्त्वानि पृथिवीतले ।। ३८.

At that time there is no rain, and that drought lasts for a hundred years; thus, all the weak beings on the surface of the earth—

तान्येवात्र प्रलीयन्ते भूमित्वमुपयान्ति च। सप्तरश्मिरथो भूत्वा ह्युदतिष्ठद्विभावसुः ।। ३८.

—these indeed perish here and enter into the state of earth; then the blazing fire, becoming seven-rayed, rises up.

असह्यरश्मिर्भगवान् पिबन्नम्भो गभस्तिभिः। हरिता रश्मयस्तस्य दीप्यमानास्तु सप्तभिः ।। ३८.

The blessed one, with unbearable rays, drinks up the water with his beams; his rays, shining with sevenfold brilliance, are green.

भूय एव विवर्तन्ते व्याप्नुवन्तो वनं शनैः। भौमं काष्ठं धनं तेजो भृशमद्भिस्तु दीप्यते ।। ३८.

Again they turn about, gradually pervading the forests; the earthly wood is kindled fiercely by the blazing rays.

तस्मादुदकं सूर्य्यस्य तपतोऽति हि कथ्यते। नावृष्ट्या तपते सूर्यो नावृष्ट्या परिविष्यते ।। ३८.

Therefore, it is said that the sun, by his heat, draws up the water; the sun burns because of the drought, and because of the drought he is intensified.

नावृष्ट्या परिचिन्वन्ति वारिणा दीप्यते रविः। तस्मादपः पिबन् या वै दीप्यते रविरम्बरे ।। ३८.

Because of the drought, the sun is not replenished by water, and so he blazes; thus, drinking up the waters, the sun burns in the sky.

तस्य ते रश्मयः सप्त पिबन्त्यम्भो महार्णवात्। तेनाहारेण सन्दीप्तः सूर्य्यः सप्त भवत्युत ।। ३८.

His seven rays drink up the water from the great ocean; nourished by that sustenance, the sun indeed becomes sevenfold.