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 <[email protected]> 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > > INDOLOGY mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://list.indology.info/mailman/listinfo/indology > _______________________________________________ INDOLOGY mailing list [email protected] https://list.indology.info/mailman/listinfo/indology
