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Sankarshana

deity intermediate Hindu single tradition · 2

Sankarshana is a deity from whom the fire of Time (Kālānala) emerges from his mouth at the End of Time, as described in the Chaitanya Bhagavata. One of his names is kālāgni, meaning 'fire of time'. He is associated with cosmic destruction at the end of time cycles.

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When

First attested
300 CE
Attested period
300 – 2020
Historical notes
Appears in Puranic and Gaudiya Vaishnava literature with continued veneration in living tradition.

Relationships

aspect of
Kala, Rudra
teacher of
Four Kumaras
co occurs with
Krishna, Yama, Vishnu, Narasimha, Brahma, Rama, Lakshmana, Śeṣa, Balarama
manifested by
Ananta, Narayana

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Sources

wikipedia (2)
  1. Kāla
  2. Shesha

Source passages

“In the Chaitanya Bhagavata, a Gaudiya Vaishnava text and biography of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, it is said that the fire that emerges from the mouth of Sankarshana at the End of Time is the Kālānala, or 'fire of Time'.”

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