Destruction

Mbh.3.94.4998	Destruction, however, overtakes him to the roots.
Mbh.3.146.7470	Destruction at anything else do I not ask thee about, O monkey.
Mbh.3.187.9312	O tiger among men, when all this universe is withdrawn and ensconced within its home, the Creator himself, that disappearance of all things is called by the learned to be Universal Destruction.
Mbh.3.187.9319	The course of the world looketh contrary, and indeed, these are the signs that foreshadow the Universal Destruction.
Mbh.5.72.3555	When a man born and brought up in a respectable family, covereth the possessions of others, that avarice of his destroyeth his intelligence; and intelligence being destroyed, shame is lost; and loss of shame leadeth to diminution of virtue; and loss of virtue bringeth on loss of prosperity, Destruction of prosperity, in its turn, ruineth a person, for poverty is a person's death.
Mbh.7.127.6331	Destruction is certain for my luckless self in battle, when three car-warriors, O tiger among men, have if, succession transgressed thee.
Mbh.12.58.3153	Another triple aggregate connected with Chastisement, viz, Conversation, Growth, and Destruction, was treated in it
Mbh.12.193.11555	Great teachers have before this show the truths about Creation and the Destruction of the universe.
Mbh.12.232.14454	Even thus doth the Unmanifest Brahma repeatedly undergo the processes of Elaboration and Withdrawal ie, Creation and Destruction, and even thus Brahman's Day and Night each consist of a thousand yugas
Mbh.12.254.15457	Destruction of both good and evil thoughts ie, dreamless slumber, perseverance, concentration, decision, and ascertainment of all things resting upon direct evidence, constitute the five properties of the understanding'
Mbh.12.284.17594	Thou, O illustrious one, art Cause and Effect and Action and Instrument of everything unreal and real, and thou art Creation and Destruction.
Mbh.12.284.17708	Invested with attributes, thou becomest subject to Destruction.
Mbh.12.284.17755	Thou art the lunar month, thou art the cycle of the Yugas ie, Kalpa, thou art Destruction, and thou art Creation.
Mbh.12.285.17872	When Destruction comes, the infinite diversity of creatures resolve themselves into those five, and once more, when Creation begins, they spring from the same five.
Mbh.12.303.19096	When the time approaches for universal Destruction, all existent objects and attributes are withdrawn by the Supreme Soul which then exists alone like the Sun withdrawing at evening all his rays; and when the time comes for Creation He once more creates and spreads them out like the Sun shedding and spreading out his rays when morning comes.
Mbh.12.306.19262	At every new Creation, the Gunas start into existence in the lateral order as stated above, and when Destruction comes they merge, each into its progenitor in a reverse order, like the waves of the ocean disappearing in the ocean that gives them birth.
Mbh.12.306.19263	O best of kings, this is the manner in which the Creation and the Destruction of Prakriti takes place.
Mbh.12.306.19264	The Supreme Being is all that remains when Universal Destruction takes place, and it is He that assumes multifarious forms when Creation starts into life.
Mbh.12.306.19268	Only fully conversant with the nature of the topics of enquiry knows that Prakriti also assumes the same kind of diversity and unity, for when Destruction comes she reverts into unity and when Creation flows she assumes diversity of form.
Mbh.12.307.19303	The learned say that that Prakriti, which is fraught with the attributes of Creation and Destruction, is called Avidya; while Purusha, who is freed from the attributes of Creation and Destruction and who transcends the four and twenty topics or principles, is called Vidya.
Mbh.12.307.19324	In consequence of its attributes of repeated Creation and Destruction, the Unmanifest or Prakriti is called Indestructible.
Mbh.12.308.19399	He then casts off the Unmanifest or Prakriti which is fraught with the attributes of Creation and Destruction.
Mbh.12.312.19606	One who is without defect of any kind, who is the Creator of the Past, the Present, and the Future; and who is perfectly faultless, I have thus, O monarch, duly told thee of Destruction.
Mbh.12.318.19859	That which is mobile is Prakriti, which undergoing modification, constitutes the cause of Creation and Destruction.
Mbh.12.318.19860	The Immobile is Purusha, for without himself undergoing modifications he assists at Creation and Destruction.
Mbh.12.319.19999	Destruction overtakes, all creatures.
Mbh.12.341.22237	From her flows all the modifications of both Creation and Destruction.
Mbh.12.341.22242	He is otherwise called Aniruddha and is the source of the Creation and the Destruction of the universe.
Mbh.12.341.22248	Although capable of granting boons unto all creatures, they are, however, in the matter of the concerns to which they attend viz, Creation and Destruction, merely instruments in the hands of Aniruddha.
Mbh.12.347.22997	Listen now, O best of kings, to me as I narrate to thee how the Destruction is brought about of all things.

Jijith Nadumuri Ravi
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Reference:- Mahabharata of Krishna Dwaipayana Vyasa, translated to English by Kisari Mohan Ganguli; Source of Plain Text: www.sacred-texts.com; Wikified at AncientVoice.

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