Shanti Parva 280.41
Rahular Itihasa / M. N. Dutt · Shanti Parva Chapter 280 · Verse 41
Sanskrit Original
स देवलोके विहरत्यभीक्ष्णं ततश्च्युतो मानुषतामुपैति। संहारविक्षेपशतानि चाष्टौ मर्येषु तिष्ठत्यमृतत्वमेति।।४३। सोऽस्मादथ भ्रश्यति कालयोगात् कृष्णे तले तिष्ठति सर्वकृष्ट। स्तत्तेऽभिधास्याम्यसुरप्रवीर॥
Individual Soul sports for many long Kalpas in the world of Devas. Falling thence, he once more becomes a man. He then lives in that condition for the period of a hundred and cight Kalpas. He then attains once more to the a status of a Deity. If while born as a man he falls through Kala, he then sinks into the Dark colour and thus occupies the very lowest of all stages of existence. I shall tell you, now, O foremost of Asuras, how Individual Soul succeeds in bringing about his Liberation.