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Jara’s Arrow and Krishna’s Departure: Time, Dharma, and the Eternal Law of Transformation

The narrative of Jara’s arrow and Krishna’s departure, preserved in the Mahabharata and Bhagavata Purana, encodes a rigorous meditation on time, dharma, and karmic causality. By exploring the Sanskrit semantics of jarā (old age) and the story’s careful framing within prophetic and ethical horizons, the episode becomes a study of impermanence and intentional closure. It…
