Shloka 29

युगधर्मवर्णनम् — चतुर्युग, गुण, धर्मपाद, तथा वार्तोत्पत्ति

Devanagari script

हृष्टपुष्टास्तया सिद्ध्या प्रजा वै विगतज्वराः ततः कालान्तरेणैव पुनर्लोभावृतास्तु ताः

Transliteration

hṛṣṭapuṣṭāstayā siddhyā prajā vai vigatajvarāḥ tataḥ kālāntareṇaiva punarlobhāvṛtāstu tāḥ

Translation

By that accomplishment (siddhi) the beings became joyful and well-nourished, and the people were free from feverish affliction. Yet, after the passage of time, those very souls were again covered over by greed—returning to bondage (pāśa) and forgetting the Lord (Pati).

Word by Word

• हृष्ट (hṛṣṭa): delighted, exhilarated

• पुष्टाः (puṣṭāḥ): nourished, strengthened

• तया (tayā): by that (fem.), through that

• सिद्ध्या (siddhyā): by the siddhi/accomplishment

• प्रजा (prajā): creatures, subjects, people

• वै (vai): indeed

• विगतज्वराः (vigata-jvarāḥ): free from fever/torment

• ततः (tataḥ): then, thereafter

• कालान्तरेण (kālāntareṇa): after an interval of time

• एव (eva): certainly, indeed

• पुनः (punaḥ): again

• लोभ-आवृताः (lobha-āvṛtāḥ): enveloped/covered by greed

• तु (tu): but, however

• ताः (tāḥ): they (those beings)

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating to the sages of Naimisharanya)