Shloka 47

युगधर्मवर्णनम् — चतुर्युग, गुण, धर्मपाद, तथा वार्तोत्पत्ति

Devanagari script

अन्यथा जीवितं तासां नास्ति त्रेतायुगात्यये हस्तोद्भवा ह्यपश्चैव भवन्ति बहुशस्तदा

Transliteration

anyathā jīvitaṃ tāsāṃ nāsti tretāyugātyaye hastodbhavā hyapaścaiva bhavanti bahuśastadā

Translation

さもなくば、トレーター・ユガの終わりに彼らの生存はない。その時、幾度となく多くの「手より生まれた」存在が現れ、さらに祭式の秩序に適う「パシュ」(paśu)ではない者さえ生じるのである。

Word by Word

• anyathā: otherwise

• jīvitam: life, survival

• tāsām: of them

• nāsti: does not exist

• tretā-yuga-atyaye: at the end of the Tretā-yuga

• hasta-udbhavāḥ: hand-born, arising from the hand (lit.)

• hi: indeed

• apaś: non-pashu / not fit for the sacrificial-pashu category (contextual)

• ca eva: and also

• bhavanti: become, arise

• bahuśaḥ: many times, repeatedly

• tadā: then

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating to the sages of Naimisharanya; contextual attribution)