Upaniṣads · Nṛsiṃha-tāpanī Pūrva 4.36
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Devanāgarī
ओं यो ह वै नृसिंहो देवो भगवान् यश्च कालः भूर्भुवः स्वस्तस्मै वै नमो नमः
Transliteración (IAST)
oṃ yo ha vai nṛsiṃho devo bhagavān yaśca kālaḥ bhūrbhuvaḥ svastasmai vai namo namaḥ
Palabra por palabra
SánscritoIASTSignificado
ओं यः ह वैoṃ yaḥ ha vaiOṁ. He who; Oṁ. The very one who
नृसिंहः देवः सः भगवान्nṛsiṃhaḥ devaḥ saḥ bhagavānis the God Nṛsiṃha — he is the Lord; the god Nṛsiṃha is — he is Bhagavān
यः च कालःyaḥ ca kālaḥand who is time; and the one who is kāla
भूर्भुवः स्वःbhūrbhuvaḥ svaḥearth, mid-air, heaven; bhūḥ, bhuvaḥ, svaḥ
तस्मै वै नमः नमःtasmai vai namaḥ namaḥto him be bow upon bow; to him worship and worship
Traducción
Oṁ. He who is the God Nṛsiṃha — He is the Lord, and He is time. Earth, mid-air, heaven! To him be bow upon bow.
Versión
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The twenty-second name is kāla, time, and with it begins the gravest row of the litany: time, Manu, death, Yama, the Ender.
In the Atharva-veda there is a separate hymn to Time, where it is called a horse with seven reins, and it is said that Time begot even Prajāpati.
We read the same in the twentieth section of the Atharvaśiras and in the thirty-fifth mantra of the Rāma-tāpanī.
All these books agree in one thing: time is not faceless, and therefore it is no enemy. Who knows whose it is ceases to fight it off.
Note that right after time Manu is named — the forefather of men and the giver of the law. The neighbourhood is telling: time and order stand side by side.