Sūta said: Without Kāla (time) there is no order, no initiation, no daily ritual. How can there be the division of the seasons? Whence are these flowers, roots and fruits? Whence is the outcome of plants? How can there be the different kinds of grass and medicinal plants? The dealings of the creatures in heaven and here too will be non-existent without the sun who is the form of Rudra, the scorcher of the universe. He alone is time, fire, Dvādaśātman (one having twelve forms) and Prajāpati. O excellent brahmins, he scorches the three worlds including the mobile and immobile beings. He is the mine of splendour. He is all in all, the whole set of worlds.