5000 of the Kaliyuga occurs in two other places also in the Devibhagavata, once in the middle of Chapter 7 of Book IX when Narayana pronounces the liberation of the curse to the goddesses:—
Kalau pancha sahasre cha
Gate varshe cha mokshanam |
‘When 5,000 years of the Kali age have expired you will be liberated from the curse.’ Again in Chapter 13 (1st verse) where Narada asks Narayana to relate to him what happened to the goddesses after the year 5000, he says:—
Kalau pancha-Sahasrabde
Samatite Suresvara |
Kya gata sa Mahabhaga
Tanme vyakhyatum arhasi ||
Thus from a minute examination of the Devi-bhagavata, the year 5000 1s alluded to in only three places in Chapter 8,9 and 13 of the ninth book of that work. And it is only in Chapter 8 that the disappearance of evervthing from the world in the year 5000 Kalyuga is alluded to. And the Hindu belief in the Puranas is that everything happens as predicted therein and even so the doom and ruin of the
