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[Alexandr Korol]

Samvartasthāyikalpa
Nothing can be said about this kalpa, since below the worlds of Abhasvara nothing happens. When the kalpa ends, cosmic winds begin to blow again and restore the original structure of the universe.

Other World Destructions
The usual process of world destruction by fire occurs at the end of the Samvartasthāyikalpa. But every eight Great Kalpas, after seven destructions by fire, comes the next destruction of the world by water. This destruction is more devastating, as it engulfs not only the worlds of Brahma but also the worlds of Abhasvara.

And every sixty-four Mahakalpas, after 56 destructions by fire and seven destructions by water, comes the destruction of the world by wind. This is the most devastating catastrophe, which also sweeps away the worlds of Shubhakritsna. Higher worlds are never destroyed.” Well, at least something remains indestructible. So, as Wikipedia quickly summarized: previously there was the third world, Samvartakalpa, and the more complex one — Samvartasthāyikalpa — is the fourth world. And it was stated that “there is nothing to be said about this world, as there is nothing below it. And that when the Kalpa ends, the cosmic wind begins to blow again and restores the original structure of the universe
So this is when absolutely everything is destroyed — the fourth world, where nothing remains, complete chaos. Well, it all aligns perfectly, and it’s satisfying to finally see these boundaries clearly. You see how ancient and profound this religion is — all this Hindu worldview — and we are only just beginning to approach it.

Next, what I highlighted separately after this article, and what we should pay attention to in general, is cosmology. In Wikipedia it says that it is “(‘world’ and ‘teaching’; world-teaching) — a branch of astronomy that studies the properties and evolution of the universe as a whole. The foundation of this discipline consists of mathematics, physics, and astronomy.” And here’s what we can see next. History of cosmology, China: “Archaeological finds allow us to assert that the prototype of the cosmos might have been considered the shell