Shloka 5
Bhārata-varṣa-varṇana
Description of Bhārata: Mountains, Rivers, and Janapadas
चत्वारि तु सहस्राणि वर्षाणां कुरुसत्तम | आयु:संख्या कृतयुगे संख्याता राजसत्तम,कुरुश्रेष्ठ! नृपप्रवर! सत्ययुगके लोगोंकी आयुका मान चार हजार वर्ष है
cattvāri tu sahasrāṇi varṣāṇāṁ kurusattama | āyuḥsaṅkhyā kṛtayuge saṅkhyātā rājasattama ||
Sañjaya said: “O best of the Kurus, O foremost of kings— in the Kṛta (Satya) Yuga the measured span of human life is reckoned as four thousand years.”
संजय उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse presents a traditional yuga-based measure of human longevity: in the Kṛta/Satya Yuga, lifespan is said to be four thousand years, illustrating the idea that human capacities decline across successive ages.
Sañjaya addresses a Kuru king with honorific epithets and states a cosmological datum about the Kṛta Yuga, as part of a broader explanatory passage on yugas and their characteristics.