Kālarūpa

Kālarūpa · kāla-rūpa, “the form of Time”

Kālarūpa is a name used for more than one form in the Purāṇas. Each is listed below with where it is told; choose the one you are looking for.

Devatās

• Kālarūpa: Bhagavān Śiva‘s form as Time in the sky, whose limbs are the twelve rāśis and the twenty-seven nakshatras. Vāmana Purāṇa, Chapters 5–6, 57
• Yama: Kālarūpa, “the form of Time”, a name of Yama in the Agni Purāṇa. Agni Purāṇa, Chapters 56, 138, 314