pralaya
प्रलय pralayaDissolution; the periodic unmaking of the worlds at the close of a kalpa, whether at the end of a day of Brahma (naimittika) or of his whole life (prakritika), after the manvantara cycles have run.
Where this term appears
- Hindu cosmology: the fourteen worlds and the ages of the universe Essentials
Waking and sleeping Between one day of Brahmā and the next comes a pralaya , a dissolution.
- Bhuta Shuddhi: The Rite That Burns the Body to Ash Lineages
The dissolution replays pralaya , the periodic reabsorption of the whole universe back into its unmanifest ground.
- The Twelve Jyotirlingas Temples
Kashi is said to rest on Shiva's trident, lifted clear of cosmic dissolution, pralaya , so that when the rest of creation is unmade, the city of light remains.
- The Wheel of Ages Treatise
At the close of each day of Brahma comes what the Vishnu Purana calls the incidental dissolution, the naimittika pralaya : the three worlds are burned and then drowned, until all is one mighty ocean.
- The jewelled earring Treatise
The tradition imagines that at the end of an age, in the pralaya , the whole universe is drawn back into fire and dissolved, and that Kashi is the cremation ground of the entire world, the place where all thing…
- The lock has an address Treatise
Two other apparent hits in the sweep are the particle kila and a compound of pralaya , and neither is the stem.
- The never-forsaken Treatise
At the end of an age, when the whole universe is unmade in the cosmic dissolution the tradition calls pralaya , everything is drawn back into the darkness and destroyed.