Shloka 17

युगधर्मवर्णनम् — चतुर्युग, गुण, धर्मपाद, तथा वार्तोत्पत्ति

Devanagari script

पर्वतोदधिवासिन्यो ह्य् अनिकेताश्रयास्तु ताः विशोकाः सत्त्वबहुला एकान्तबहुलास् तथा

Transliteration

parvatodadhivāsinyo hy aniketāśrayāstu tāḥ viśokāḥ sattvabahulā ekāntabahulās tathā

Translation

Jene, die in Bergen und Ozeanen wohnen und ohne festen Hausstand Zuflucht nehmen, sind ohne Kummer, reich an Sattva und voller Abgeschiedenheit; so werden sie beschrieben.

Word by Word

• पर्वत-उदधि-वासिन्यः: dwelling in mountains and oceans

• हि: indeed

• अनिकेत-आश्रयाः: those whose refuge is ‘no fixed abode’/without a settled home

• तु: but/and

• ताः: they/those

• विशोकाः: free from grief

• सत्त्व-बहुलाः: predominated by sattva (purity, clarity)

• एकान्त-बहुलाः: greatly inclined to solitude/seclusion

• तथा: likewise/thus

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating the Purana to the sages at Naimisharanya; contextual inference)