तमस्यपारे विदुरात्मसर्गं विचिन्वतो ऽभूत्सुमहांस्त्रिणेमिः यो देहभाजां भयमीरयाणः परिक्षिणोत्यायुरजस्य हेतिः
tamasy apāre vidurātma-sargaṁ vicinvato 'bhūt sumahāṁs triṇemiḥ yo deha-bhājāṁ bhayam īrayāṇaḥ parikṣiṇoty āyur ajasya hetiḥ
Synonyms
tamasi apāre—because of an ignorant way of searching; vidura—O Vidura; ātma-sargam—the cause of his creation; vicinvataḥ—while contemplating; abhūt—it so became; sumahān—very great; triṇemiḥ—time of three dimensions; yaḥ—which; deha-bhājām—of the embodied; bhayam—fearfulness; īrayāṇaḥ—generating; parikṣiṇoti—diminishing the one hundred years; āyuḥ—duration of life; ajasya—of the self-born; hetiḥ—the wheel of eternal time..
Translation
O Vidura, while searching in that way about his existence, Brahmā reached his ultimate time, which is the eternal wheel in the hand of Viṣṇu and which generates fear in the mind of the living entity like the fear of death.