Paippalāda-Saṃhitā · Chapter 11.8
kālo aśvo vahati saptaraśmiḥ
sahasrākṣo ajaro bhūriretāḥ |
tām ā rohanti kavayo vipaścitas
tasya cakrā bhuvanāni viśvā ||
sapta cakrān vahati kāla eṣa
saptāsya nābhīr amṛtaṃ nv akṣaḥ |
sa imā viśvā bhuvanāny añjan
kālaḥ sa īyate prathamo nu devaḥ ||
pūrṇaḥ kumbho adhi kāla āhitas
taṃ vai paśyāmo bahudhā nu santam |
sa imā viśvā bhuvanāni pratyaṅ
kālaṃ tam āhuḥ parame vyoman ||
sa eva san bhuvanāny ābharat
sa eva san bhuvanāni pary ait |
pitā sann abhavat putra eṣāṃ
tasmād vai nānyat param asti tejaḥ ||
kālo 'mūṃ divam ajanayat
kala imāṃ pṛthivīm uta |
kālena bhūtaṃ bhavyaṃ ca-
-iṣitaṃ ha vi tiṣṭhate ||
kālo bhūtim asṛjat
kale tapati sūryaḥ |
kālo ha viśvā bhūtāni
kāle cakṣur vi paśyati ||
kāle manaḥ kāle prāṇaḥ
kāle nāma samāhitam |
kālena sarvā nandanty
āgatena prajā imāḥ ||
kāle tapaḥ kāle jyeṣṭhaṃ
kāle brahma samāhitam |
kālo ha sarvasyeśvaro
yaḥ pitāsīt prajāpateḥ ||
teneṣitaṃ tena jātaṃ
tad u tasmin pratiṣṭhitam |
kālo ha brahma bhūtvā
bibharti parameṣṭhinam ||
kālaḥ prajām asṛjata
kālo agre prajāpatim |
svayambhūḥ kaśyapaḥ kālāt
tapaḥ kālād ajāyata ||
Original text: Paippalāda-Saṃhitā · Edition: Dipak Bhattacharya The Paippalāda-Saṁhitā of the Atharvaveda. Volume One, Consisting of the first fifteen Kāṇḍas Calcutta The Asiatic Society Dipak Bhattacharya The Paippalāda-Saṁhitā of the Atharvaveda. Volume Two, Consisting of the sixteenth Kāṇḍa Calcutta The Asiatic Society Dipak Bhattacharya The Paippalāda-Saṁhitā of the Atharvaveda. Volume three, consisting of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth · Data entry Arlo Griffiths Thomas Zehnder Philipp Kubisch Duccio Lelli Alexander Lubotsky Carmen Spiers Michael Witzel · GRETIL (Göttingen) · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0