Shloka 20

Adhyaya 40: Kali-yuga Lakshana, Yuga-sandhyamsha, and the Re-emergence of Dharma

Devanagari script

निन्दन्ति वेदविद्यां च द्विजाः कर्माणि वै कलौ कलौ देवो महादेवः शङ्करो नीललोहितः

Transliteration

nindanti vedavidyāṃ ca dvijāḥ karmāṇi vai kalau kalau devo mahādevaḥ śaṅkaro nīlalohitaḥ

Translation

Dans l’âge de Kali, même les dvija, les « deux-fois-nés », dénigrent la science védique et les rites prescrits. Pourtant, en Kali, Dieu lui-même est Mahādeva—Śaṅkara, Nīlalohita, le Seigneur Bleu-et-Rouge—l’unique Pati, refuge certain des paśu enchaînés au cœur du déclin du dharma.

Word by Word

• निन्दन्ति: they criticize/condemn

• वेदविद्याम्: Vedic knowledge/sacred learning

• च: and

• द्विजाः: the twice-born (Brahmins and other initiated varṇas)

• कर्माणि: ritual actions/rites

• वै: indeed

• कलौ: in Kali (Kali-yuga)

• कलौ: in Kali (emphatic repetition)

• देवः: the God

• महादेवः: Mahādeva (the Great God, Shiva)

• शङ्करः: Śaṅkara (beneficent Shiva)

• नीललोहितः: Nīlalohita (the blue-and-red/blue-throated and ruddy-hued form of Shiva)

Speaker

Suta Goswami