Shloka 54

Devanagari script

क्रयविक्रयकाले च सर्व: सर्वस्य वज्चनम्‌ । युगान्ते भरतश्रेष्ठ वित्तलोभात्‌ करिष्यति,भरतश्रेष्ठ।! युगान्तकालमें धनके लोभसे क्रय-विक्रयके समय सभी सबको ठगेंगे

Transliteration

krayavikrayakāle ca sarvaḥ sarvasya vañcanam | yugānte bharataśreṣṭha vittalobhāt kariṣyati, bharataśreṣṭha ||

Translation

Mārkaṇḍeya said: “At the time of buying and selling, everyone will deceive everyone. O best of the Bharatas, at the end of the age, driven by greed for wealth, people will commit such fraud.”

Word by Word

• क्रय: in buying
• क्रय: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: क्रय
• Form: Masculine, Locative, Singular

• विक्रयकाले: at the time of selling
• विक्रयकाले: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: विक्रयकाल
• Form: Masculine, Locative, Singular

• च: and
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: च

• सर्वः: everyone
• सर्वः: Karta
• Type: Pronoun/Adjective
• Root: सर्व
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• सर्वस्य: of everyone / each other's
• Type: Pronoun/Adjective
• Root: सर्व
• Form: Masculine/Neuter, Genitive, Singular

• वञ्चनम्: deceit, cheating
• वञ्चनम्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: वञ्चन
• Form: Neuter, Accusative, Singular

• युगान्ते: at the end of the age
• युगान्ते: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: युगान्त
• Form: Masculine, Locative, Singular

• भरतश्रेष्ठ: O best of the Bharatas
• Type: Noun (vocative title)
• Root: भरतश्रेष्ठ
• Form: Masculine, Vocative, Singular

• वित्तलोभात्: from greed for wealth
• वित्तलोभात्: Apadana
• Type: Noun
• Root: वित्तलोभ
• Form: Masculine, Ablative, Singular

• करिष्यति: will do / will commit
• Type: Verb
• Root: कृ
• Form: Simple Future (Lṛṭ), 3rd, Singular, Parasmaipada

• भरतश्रेष्ठ: O best of the Bharatas
• Type: Noun (vocative title)
• Root: भरतश्रेष्ठ
• Form: Masculine, Vocative, Singular

Speaker

मार्कण्डेय उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Mārkaṇḍeya
• Bharataśreṣṭha (addressee, a Bharata prince/king)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

Greed for wealth corrodes dharma: when society normalizes profit over truth, even everyday transactions become arenas of deception, signaling moral decline at the yuga’s end.

What is happening in the narrative?

In Mārkaṇḍeya’s discourse describing end-of-age conditions, he warns the Bharata addressee that commerce will be dominated by mutual cheating, driven by intensified attachment to money.