4.19.

53 Sukta 53 Prayer to Kala (Time),

personified as a Primordial Power
1. Time, the steed, runs with seven reins
(rays), thousand-eyed, ageless, rich in seed.
The seers, thinking holy
thoughts, mount him, all the beings (worlds)
are his wheels.
2. With seven wheels does this Time ride,
seven naves has he, immortality is his axle.
He carries hither all these
beings (worlds). Time, the first god, now
hastens onward.
3. A full jar has been placed upon Time; him,
verily, we see existing in many forms. He
carries away all these
beings (worlds); they call him Time in the
highest heaven.
4. He surely did bring hither all the beings
(worlds), he surely did encompass all the
beings (worlds). Being their

father, he became their son; there is, verily,

no other force, higher than he.
5. Time begot yonder heaven, Time also
(begot) these earths. That which was, and
that which shall be, urged
forth by Time, spreads out.
Vishva Dharma ki Jay! (Victory to Universal
Dharma!)
Ano Bhadraha Kritavayo Yantu Vishwataha
(Let noble thoughts come from every side)
Rg Veda 950
6. Time created the earth, in Time the sun
burns. In Time are all beings, in Time the eye
looks abroad.
7. In Time mind is fixed, in Time breath (is
fixed), in Time names (are fixed); when Time
has arrived all these
creatures rejoice.

8. In Time tapas (creative fervour) is fixed; in

Time the highest (being is fixed); in Time
brahma (spiritual
exaltation) is fixed; Time is the lord of
everything, he was the father of Pragpati.
9. By him this (universe) was urged forth, by
him it was begotten, and upon him this
(universe) was founded.
Time, truly, having become the brahma
(spiritual exaltation), supports Parameshthin
(the highest lord).
10. Time created the creatures (pragh), and
Time in the beginning (created) the lord of
creatures (Prgapati); the
self-existing Kasyapa and the tapas (creative
fervour) from Time were born.
4.19.54 Sukta 54 Prayer to Kala (Time),
personified as a Primordial Power

1. From Time the waters did arise, from Time

the brahma (spiritual exaltation), the tapas
(creative fervour), the
regions (of space did arise). Through Time
the sun rises, in Time he goes down again.
2. Through Time the wind blows, through
Time (exists) the great earth; the great sky is
fixed in Time. In Time the
son (Pragpati) begot of yore that which was,
and that which shall be.
3. From Time the Riks arose, the Yagus was
born from Time; Time put forth the sacrifice,
the imperishable share
of the gods.
4. Upon Time the Gandharvas and
Apsarases are founded, upon Time the
worlds (are founded), in Time this
Angiras and Atharvan rule over the heavens.

5. Having conquered this world and the

highest world, and the holy (pure) worlds
(and) their holy divisions; having
by means of the brahma (spiritual exaltation)
conquered all the worlds, Time, the highest
God, forsooth, hastens
onward.