The powerful river of Time, overspread with eddies formed by the years, having the months for its waves and the seasons for its current, the fortnights for its floating straw and grass, and the rise and fall of the eyelids for its froth, the days and the nights for its water, and desire and lust for its dreadful crocodiles, the Vedas and sacrifices for its rafts, and the righteousness of creatures for its islands, and Profit and Pleasure for its springs, Truthfulness of Speech and Liberation for its shores, benevolence for the trees floating along it, and the Yugas for the lakes along its course.-the powerful river of Time-which has an origin as inconceivable as that of Brahma itself, is ceaselessly carrying away all beings created by the great Ordainer towards the adobe of Yaina.
कालोदके महता वर्षावर्तेन संततम्। मासोमिंणर्तुवगेन पक्षोलपतृणेन च॥ निमेषोन्मेषफेनेन अहोरात्रजलेन च। कामग्राहेण घोरेण वेदयज्ञप्लवेन च॥ धर्मद्वीपेन भूतानां चार्थकामजलेन च। ऋतवाङ्मोक्षतीरेण विहिसातरुवाहिना॥ युगह्रदौघमध्येन ब्रह्मप्रायभवेन च। धात्रा सृष्टानि भूतानि कृष्यन्ते यमसादनम्॥