Shloka 11

प्रसाद-ज्ञान-योग-मोक्षक्रमः तथा व्यास-रुद्रावतार-मन्वन्तर-परम्परा

Devanagari script

एवं क्रमागतं ज्ञानं मुखादेव नृणां विभोः वैश्यान्तं ब्राह्मणाद्यं हि घृणया चानुरूपतः

Transliteration

evaṃ kramāgataṃ jñānaṃ mukhādeva nṛṇāṃ vibhoḥ vaiśyāntaṃ brāhmaṇādyaṃ hi ghṛṇayā cānurūpataḥ

Translation

So ging das heilige Wissen, in rechter Folge überliefert, aus dem eigenen Mund des Herrn hervor, des Souveräns der Wesen. Vom Brāhmaṇa an bis hin zum Vaiśya wurde es einem jeden angemessen vermittelt, gemäß dem Maß an Selbstzucht und Mitgefühl, das die rechte Unterweisung leitet.

Word by Word

• एवम्: thus

• क्रमागतम्: received through succession/tradition

• ज्ञानम्: sacred knowledge/spiritual teaching

• मुखात् एव: from the mouth alone (directly)

• नृणाम्: of men/for human beings

• विभोः: of the all-pervading Lord (Pati)

• वैश्य-अन्तम्: ending with the Vaiśya/upto the Vaiśya

• ब्राह्मण-आद्यम्: beginning with the Brāhmaṇa

• हि: indeed

• घृणया: with compassion/with restraint from harm

• च: and

• अनुरूपतः: appropriately, according to fitness.

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating the Linga Purana tradition to the sages at Naimisharanya)