Shloka 60

कृतयुगवर्णनम् तथा राजधर्मोपदेशः

Kṛtayuga Description and Instruction on Royal Dharma

Devanagari script

सप्तवर्षष्टवर्षाश्च स्त्रियों गर्भधरा नूप । दशद्वादशवर्षाणां पुंसां पुत्र: प्रजायते,राजन! युगान्तकालमें सात-आठ वर्षकी स्त्रियाँ गर्भ धारण करेंगी और दस-बारह वर्षकी अवस्थावाले पुरुषोंके भी पुत्र होंगे

Transliteration

saptavarṣāṣṭavarṣāś ca striyo garbhadharā nūpa | daśadvādaśavarṣāṇāṃ puṃsāṃ putraḥ prajāyate, rājan ||

Translation

বৈশম্পায়নে ক’লে—হে ৰাজন, সেই যুগান্তৰ অৱক্ষয়কালত সাত-আঠ বছৰৰ কন্যাসকলেও গৰ্ভধাৰণ কৰিব, আৰু দহ-বাৰ বছৰৰ বালকসকলৰো পুত্ৰ জন্মিব।

Word by Word

• सप्तवर्षाः: seven-year-old (women)
• सप्तवर्षाः: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: सप्तवर्ष
• Form: Feminine, Nominative, Plural

• अष्टवर्षाः: eight-year-old (women)
• अष्टवर्षाः: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: अष्टवर्ष
• Form: Feminine, Nominative, Plural

• च: and
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: च

• स्त्रियः: women
• स्त्रियः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: स्त्री
• Form: Feminine, Nominative, Plural

• गर्भधराः: pregnant; bearing a fetus
• गर्भधराः: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: गर्भधर
• Form: Feminine, Nominative, Plural

• नृप: O king
• Type: Noun
• Root: नृप
• Form: Masculine, Vocative, Singular

• दशद्वादशवर्षाणाम्: of (those) of ten and twelve years (i.e., aged 10–12)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: दशद्वादशवर्ष
• Form: Masculine/Neuter, Genitive, Plural

• पुंसाम्: of men
• Type: Noun
• Root: पुंस्
• Form: Masculine, Genitive, Plural

• पुत्रः: a son
• पुत्रः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: पुत्र
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• प्रजायते: is born; comes into being
• Type: Verb
• Root: प्र+जन्
• Form: Lat, Present, Atmanepada, Third, Singular

• राजन्: O king
• Type: Noun
• Root: राजन्
• Form: Masculine, Vocative, Singular

Speaker

वैशम्पायन उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Vaiśampāyana
• rājan (the king addressed)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse presents a symptom of yuga-decline: the disruption of normal life-stages and social order, framed as a warning to rulers about moral and societal deterioration.

What is happening in the narrative?

Vaiśampāyana is describing ominous end-of-age conditions to the king he is addressing, listing abnormal social and biological phenomena as markers of a deteriorating era.