Shloka 14

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

Devanagari script

नीचस्येव तदा वाक्यं वदन्ति विनयेन तम् उच्चासनस्थान् शूद्रांश् च द्विजमध्ये द्विजर्षभ

Transliteration

nīcasyeva tadā vākyaṃ vadanti vinayena tam uccāsanasthān śūdrāṃś ca dvijamadhye dvijarṣabha

Translation

तब, हे द्विजश्रेष्ठ, वे उसे नीच के समान मानकर विनयपूर्वक वचन कहते हैं—विशेषतः द्विजों की सभा में उच्च आसन पर बैठे शूद्रों के प्रति।

Word by Word

• नीचस्येव: as if (he were) low-born/low-status

• तदा: then

• वाक्यम्: words, speech

• वदन्ति: they speak

• विनयेन: with humility, with deference

• तम्: to him

• उच्चासनस्थान्: seated on high seats

• शूद्रान्: Śūdras

• च: and

• द्विजमध्ये: in the midst of the twice-born

• द्विजर्षभ: O bull among the twice-born (vocative).

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating to the sages; addressing a dvija listener within the narrative frame)