Time

Even the mightiest beings and the gods, O bull among men — no embodied creature in all existence is released from the power of fate.

"Heroes, the mighty, those skilled in arms on the battlefield — when overtaken by Time they sink down like embankments of sand.

Even among the gods headed by Śakra, both good fortune and misfortune are heard to occur, O tiger among men — you should not be distressed.

Time has an onslaught, so beware it — never pass a night having felt safe from the ages

Time is in revolt with its sudden strokes and estranging in its calamities;

Time, though it be soft to its own people, is rough And its moving afflictions — as though they were still

Time is the cause of usage such as 'past' and the like.

that the complete and perfect number of time, and the complete and perfect year, are brought to fullness only when the eight circuits, having finished their courses, have returned to the same point of beginning, and when the same and ever self-like orbit has measured them out.

By reason, then, and by the divine mind, the course of the sun and moon was devised for the origin of time .

When, then, each of those stars had attained the course seemly for itself — those by which the measure of time was to be marked out — and when, their bodies bound by living bonds, living beings had arisen and had learned to obey command, then, running aslant from the motion of the other nature into the motion of the same, and clinging within it and hampered there — since some traversed a greater o …

let them moreover pay such fine [ timê] to the Achaeans as shall be agreed upon, in testimony among those that shall be born hereafter.

therefore give back Helen with all her wealth, and pay such fine [ timê] as shall be agreed upon, in testimony among them that shall be born hereafter.

And if Priam and his sons refuse such fine [ timê] when Alexander has fallen, then will I stay here and fight on till the war reaches its completion [ telos].

Even time exists not of itself;

No man, we must admit, feels time itself,

Reads out of things what happened long ago,

And it is as though it were a statement whose contrary is precisely what plain reason decrees, since every rational man judges that the coming day is non-existent now and existent afterwards, together with everything that occurs in it, at the two poles of existence and non-existence.

They say that time is one of the modes of the Real (*al-Ḥaqq*), and that all the beings that fall under the rule of time exist within that time in the manner of points marked upon a straight line;

Show me anyone who sets some price upon his time, who reckons the worth of a day, who understands that he is dying daily.

lay claim to yourself for yourself, and the time that until now was either being taken from you, or filched, or slipping away, gather up and keep.

Still, I would rather you kept your own, and you will be making a good start in time.

4 Then, because none of us knows any time but that which is at the very moment passing, few turn their minds back to the past;

The bringing together of all times into one makes his life long.

Of creation, neither God (Īśvara) is the cause, nor [mere] nature (svabhāva), nor Time (kāla).

[hence] they hold that there is no separate category of Great Time (mahākāla) or instant and the like, but rather that ākāśa itself, qualified by limiting adjuncts, generates the usage [ranging] from the instant up to Great Time.

as the limiting adjunct for the instant-nature of Great Time or ākāśa, others hold the action of an atom and the like, delimited by conjunction with a posterior region, or some such other thing.

Many royal sages, endowed with all virtues, And gods and Brahmanical sages have met their end through time.

Many thousands of Indras and myriads of Daitya-lords Have been destroyed by time;

Thus, in this unanchored time, which flows on forever, I see no being whose existence could be permanent.