An additional note: It appears on the internets dozens of time with this sandhi mispelling: oṁ kāla-kālāya vidmahe kālātītāya dhīmahi tan no kāla-bhairavaḥ pracodayāt
but as far as I can see only once spelled/pronounced correctedly https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGdy6FOZ4Yc oṁ kāla-kālāya vidmahe kālātītāya dhīmahi tan naḥ kāla-bhairava pracodayāt Evidence this is a modern even internet age creation? Harry Spier On Wed, Oct 22, 2025 at 4:05 PM Harry Spier <[email protected]> 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 <[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 > >
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