(Skt) "Dissolution,'' death, a period of latency between manvantaras, planetary or cosmic.

General dissolution of the universe, as opposed to individual disintegration, to which all material things, constituted as they are by divergent elements, dissolve.

A period of rest between manvantaras or periods of activity

The period of obscuration or repose between incarnations.

A non-mental, non-astral, non-material state of existence somewhere between death and rebirth, where the life impulse is in abeyance. An experience of perfect peace and unending bliss prior to taking the next incarnation. Corresponds to the Christian idea of paradise.

the end of the world