Shloka 18

Adhyaya 4: अहोरात्र-युग-मन्वन्तर-कल्पमान तथा प्रलयान्ते सृष्ट्युपक्रमः

Devanagari script

दश चैव तथाहानि दिव्यो ह्येष विधिः स्मृतः त्रीणि वर्षशतान्येव षष्टिवर्षाणि यानि तु

Transliteration

daśa caiva tathāhāni divyo hyeṣa vidhiḥ smṛtaḥ trīṇi varṣaśatānyeva ṣaṣṭivarṣāṇi yāni tu

Translation

তেনে দহ দিনকো দিব্য কালবিধি বুলি স্মৰণ কৰা হয়। ইয়াত তিনশ বছৰৰ সৈতে অতিৰিক্ত ষাঠি বছৰো উল্লেখ কৰা হৈছে।

Word by Word

• दश: ten

• च: and

• एव: indeed/only

• तथा: thus/in that manner

• अहानि: days

• दिव्यः: divine/celestial

• हि: indeed

• एषः: this

• विधिः: rule/measure/ordinance

• स्मृतः: is remembered/is declared

• त्रीणि: three

• वर्ष-शतानि: hundreds of years

• एव: indeed

• षष्टि-वर्षाणि: sixty years

• यानि: which/that

• तु: but/indeed (emphatic)

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating the Linga Purana’s cosmological reckoning of time)