Shloka 23

युगधर्मवर्णनम् — चतुर्युग, गुण, धर्मपाद, तथा वार्तोत्पत्ति

Devanagari script

वर्तयन्ति स्म तेभ्यस्तास् त्रेतायुगमुखे प्रजाः ततः कालेन महता तासामेव विपर्ययात्

Transliteration

vartayanti sma tebhyastās tretāyugamukhe prajāḥ tataḥ kālena mahatā tāsāmeva viparyayāt

Translation

ত্রেতাযুগৰ আৰম্ভণিতে তেওঁলোকৰ পৰাই প্ৰজাসকল প্ৰৱৰ্তিত হ’ল। পাছত মহাকালৰ প্ৰবাহত, তেওঁলোকৰেই অৱস্থাৰ বিপৰ্যয়ৰ ফলত সেই ক্ৰম অৱনতি হ’ল।

Word by Word

• वर्तयन्ति स्म: they caused to proceed/they set in motion

• तेभ्यः: from them

• ताः: those (generations/lines)

• त्रेतायुगमुखे: at the beginning of the Tretā-yuga

• प्रजाः: creatures/subjects/people

• ततः: thereafter

• कालेन महता: by great time/over a long period

• तासाम् एव: of those very (people/lines)

• विपर्ययात्: due to reversal/decline/perversion (of the prior order)

Speaker

Suta Goswami