Harry Spier
On Wed, Oct 22, 2025 at 4:05 PM Harry Spier <
vasishtha.spier@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Thank you to everyone who replied online and to the individual who
> replied offline who pointed to Īśvaragītā 5.13cd as an occurance of
> kālakāla .
>
> 1) Everyone agrees that kālakāla in line one means "death of death".
> Nataliya Yanchevskaya: In the Purāṇas, it's more like "Slayer of
> Death" or "Death of Death."
> Jean-Luc Chevillard from the Tevaram: "Civaṉ is himself the god who
> killed the god of death."
> Lubomir Ondracka: understand Śiva's epithet Kālakāla as a synonym for Kālāntaka
>
> 2) Nataliya Yanchevskaya asked what the source of this mantra is. Its
> on hundred of youtube channels but I couldn't find it elsewhere. What
> that means, who knows. Does that mean its a modern creation? A few
> years ago I was researching a gayatri mantra to Dhanvantari also found
> on the internet. When several different major Dhanvantari temples
> were contacted in India, none of them used that gayatri.
>
> Thanks,
> Harry Spier
>
>
>
>
> Harry Spier
>
> On Wed, Oct 22, 2025 at 12:00 PM Lubomír Ondračka <
ondracka@ff.cuni.cz> wrote:
> >
> > I understand Śiva's epithet Kālakāla as a synonym for Kālāntaka,
> > referring to the myth in which Śiva killed the god Yama (= Kāla).
> > L.
> >
> > On 22/10/2025 00:13, Harry Spier via INDOLOGY wrote:
> > > Dear list members,
> > >
> > > 1) I was asked to find any gayatri mantras to time or that mention
> > > time. Does anyone know of any or have ideas about where to look. I've
> > > looked in GRETIL and the Muktbodha searchable library but didn't find
> > > any.
> > >
> > > )In the following Gayatri mantra from the internet
> > >
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCIGR0cpiyc> > >
> > > oṁ kāla-kālāya vidmahe
> > > kālātītāya dhīmahi
> > > tan no kāla-bhairavaḥ pracodayāt
> > >
> > > How would you translate kāla-kāla in the first line. Someone suggested
> > > "death of time". Is that a possible translation.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Harry Spier
> > >
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