Shloka 42

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

Devanagari script

यजन्ते चाश्वमेधेन राजानः शूद्रयोनयः स्त्रीबालगोवधं कृत्वा हत्वा चैव परस्परम्

Transliteration

yajante cāśvamedhena rājānaḥ śūdrayonayaḥ strībālagovadhaṃ kṛtvā hatvā caiva parasparam

Translation

शूद्र-योनि में जन्मे राजा अश्वमेध यज्ञ करेंगे; परन्तु स्त्री, बालक और गौ का वध करके, और परस्पर एक-दूसरे को मारकर भी, वे स्वयं को यजमान मानेंगे।

Word by Word

• यजन्ते: they sacrifice/worship

• च: and

• अश्वमेधेन: by (means of) the Aśvamedha rite

• राजानः: kings

• शूद्रयोनयः: born in Śūdra womb/lineage

• स्त्री: women

• बाल: children

• गो: cows

• वधं: killing/slaughter

• कृत्वा: having done/committed

• हत्वा: having slain

• च एव: and indeed

• परस्परम्: one another/mutually

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating to the sages of Naimisharanya)