Shloka 17

युगधर्मवर्णनम् — चतुर्युग, गुण, धर्मपाद, तथा वार्तोत्पत्ति

Devanagari script

पर्वतोदधिवासिन्यो ह्य् अनिकेताश्रयास्तु ताः विशोकाः सत्त्वबहुला एकान्तबहुलास् तथा

Transliteration

parvatodadhivāsinyo hy aniketāśrayāstu tāḥ viśokāḥ sattvabahulā ekāntabahulās tathā

Translation

Aquellos que moran entre montañas y océanos—sin amparo de morada fija—son libres de pena, abundantes en sattva y ricos en soledad; así se les describe.

Word by Word

• पर्वत-उदधि-वासिन्यः: dwelling in mountains and oceans

• हि: indeed

• अनिकेत-आश्रयाः: those whose refuge is ‘no fixed abode’/without a settled home

• तु: but/and

• ताः: they/those

• विशोकाः: free from grief

• सत्त्व-बहुलाः: predominated by sattva (purity, clarity)

• एकान्त-बहुलाः: greatly inclined to solitude/seclusion

• तथा: likewise/thus

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating the Purana to the sages at Naimisharanya; contextual inference)