Shloka 97

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

Devanagari script

तुल्याभिमानिनः सर्वे नामरूपैर्भवन्त्युत देवा ह्यष्टविधा ये च ये च मन्वन्तरेश्वराः

Transliteration

tulyābhimāninaḥ sarve nāmarūpairbhavantyuta devā hyaṣṭavidhā ye ca ye ca manvantareśvarāḥ

Translation

वे सब समान अभिमान (स्व-भाव) वाले होते हैं, पर नाम और रूप से भिन्न-भिन्न कहे जाते हैं। ये ही अष्टविध देवगण हैं और मन्वन्तरों के अधिपति भी।

Word by Word

• tulya: equal

• abhimāninaḥ: those possessing self-identification/ego-sense

• sarve: all

• nāma-rūpaiḥ: by names and forms

• bhavanti: become/manifest

• uta: indeed/also

• devāḥ: the gods

• hi: indeed

• aṣṭa-vidhāḥ: eightfold in kinds

• ye ca ye ca: and those who

• manvantara-īśvarāḥ: lords/presiding rulers of the Manvantara (cosmic epoch)

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating the cosmological taxonomy within the Purva-Bhaga discourse)