Although through the millennia Hindu thinkers have dramatically redrawn notions of time, space, and person, they also share a wealth of common imagery:
Together with doctrines concerning the various destructions (pralayas), they are the glue that holds this cosmology together and provides it with a coherent drama of salvation.
Indeed Viṣṇu Purāṇa asserts it is not space but time that constitutes the body of the deity.
Hindu divisions of time are as follows.
Hindu cosmology is the description of the universe and its states of matter, cycles within time, physical structure, and effects on living entities according to Hindu texts.
Hindu cosmology is also intertwined with the idea of a creator who allows the world to exist and take shape.
In the sense that its aim is to enumerate everything in the universe, it could also be called a cosmology.
According to S āṃ khya, the universe evolves from a feminine "natural matter" and becomes entangled with the masculine puruṣa, which is an individual soul (and not to be confused with the earlier "cosmic person").
