Shloka 34

युगधर्मवर्णनम् — चतुर्युग, गुण, धर्मपाद, तथा वार्तोत्पत्ति

Devanagari script

पूर्वं निकामचारास्ता ह्य् अनिकेता अथावसन् यथायोगं यथाप्रीति निकेतेष्ववसन्पुनः

Transliteration

pūrvaṃ nikāmacārāstā hy aniketā athāvasan yathāyogaṃ yathāprīti niketeṣvavasanpunaḥ

Translation

Formerly, those beings moved as they wished and lived without fixed dwellings; later, in due accordance with their proper stations and as was pleasing to them, they again came to reside in established abodes.

Word by Word

• पूर्वम् (pūrvam): formerly, at first

• निकामचाराः (nikāmacārāḥ): moving/acting at will, freely wandering

• ताः (tāḥ): those (beings)

• हि (hi): indeed

• अनिकेताः (aniketāḥ): without a house, without a fixed abode

• अथ (atha): then, thereafter

• अवसन् (avasan): they dwelt, they lived

• यथायोगम् (yathāyogam): according to fitness/propriety, as appropriate

• यथाप्रीति (yathāprīti): according to liking/pleasure, as agreeable

• निकेतेषु (niketeṣu): in homes/abodes/settlements

• अवसन् (avasan): they dwelt

• पुनः (punaḥ): again, thereafter

Speaker

Suta Goswami