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

Zu Beginn des Tretā-Yuga setzten jene Urwesen die Geschlechterfolge von dorther in Gang; doch im Verlauf großer Zeit, durch die Umkehrung ihres eigenen Zustands, verfiel jene Ordnung.

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