Review of Kalpas - Verse 35

The seventeenth Kalpa is known as Marjallya2 since Bhava and Brhat. A few more are added in the next chapter (22-9 ff) . But the peculiar omission is Varaha Kalpa. It is mentioned so many times ' elsewhere but is not included in this list. Similarly Padma-Kalpa mentioned as 7th Kalpa is not found in the list. The name of Bhava Kalpa is repeated twice The notes of Gamut are adopted for Kalpa-names. sambkmb svaro loka-rmnoharah. Births of sages and the musical notes are unrelated. So Rsayo is emended as Rsabho ( the musical note RA or Rsabha, which is also the name of the Kalpa) and Sambhutafi is emended as ‘sambhiitah. It agrees with number and gender of Svaro loka-manoharal} of the Venkateshwar Text. The Irne is emended as per A ( Anandashrama, Poona) edition which is ch. 21 v. 34A which runs as follows : Rsabhoyatra sambhutah svaro loka-manoharah ixieliae is translated above, ‘ 2, Marjallya is a heap of eartb to the right of the Vedi (altar) of the r iaI VeSS€l ! are cleansed (?)or f fotkd of purification* ( Siva) MW813A. But neither of the meanings is suitable here.