Shloka 61
Adhyaya 49 — Primordial Human Creation, the Rise of Desire, and the Origins of Settlements, Measures, and Agriculture
तेनौषधेन वर्तन्ते प्रजास्त्रेतायुगॆ मुने ।
रागलोभौ समासाद्य प्रजाश्चाकस्मिकौ तदा ॥
tenauṣadhena vartante prajā́s tretāyuge mune /
rāga-lobhau samāsādya prajāś cākasmikau tadā //
Con aquel alimento de hierbas vivían las criaturas en la era de Tretā, oh sabio. Pero después, al surgir el apego y la codicia, las criaturas fueron de pronto impulsadas por esas faltas.
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FAQs
Even in an age of abundance, inner faults (rāga, lobha) can corrupt right relationship with resources. The text frames ecological/social imbalance as beginning in the psyche.
Manvantara/Yuga description with an ethical inflection; it explains how decline unfolds within cosmic time-cycles.
Herbs symbolize sattvic sustenance; the intrusion of rāga-lobha indicates tamasic/rajasic agitation that ‘consumes’ equilibrium, foreshadowing scarcity as a mirror of inner grasping.