Turning the wheel of time…
Turning the wheel of time…
The lens at the top magnifies the present cycle; the faint ring is the vast span still to come. Click to descend.
Mahā-Viṣṇu breathes out. From the pores of his body stream numberless universes — each a golden egg (brahmāṇḍa) with its own Brahmā, ripening through this single out-breath.
Exhalation (Sṛṣṭi) (Sṛṣṭi · the out-breath) in the Vedic reckoning of time (Śrīmad Bhāgavatam). It spans 311.04 trillion years. Mahā-Viṣṇu breathes out. From the pores of his body stream numberless universes — each a golden egg (brahmāṇḍa) with its own Brahmā, ripening through this single out-breath.