Shloka 58

युगधर्मवर्णनम् — चतुर्युग, गुण, धर्मपाद, तथा वार्तोत्पत्ति

Devanagari script

ऋषिपुत्रैः पुनर्भेदा भिद्यन्ते दृष्टिविभ्रमैः मन्त्रब्राह्मणविन्यासैः स्वरवर्णविपर्ययैः

Transliteration

ṛṣiputraiḥ punarbhedā bhidyante dṛṣṭivibhramaiḥ mantrabrāhmaṇavinyāsaiḥ svaravarṇaviparyayaiḥ

Translation

さらにまた、聖仙（リシ）の子らによって、見解の迷いから追加の分岐が生じる。マントラとブラーフマナ部分の配列の組み替え、そしてスヴァラ（声調・アクセント）やヴァルナ（音節・字）の取り違えによってである。かくして聖なる伝承は多様に分かれてゆく。

Word by Word

• ऋषिपुत्रैः: by the sons/disciples in the ṛṣi-lineages

• पुनः: again, further

• भेदाः: divisions, recensional differences

• भिद्यन्ते: are split, become differentiated

• दृष्टि-विभ्रमैः: by confusions of view/understanding and misapprehensions

• मन्त्र-ब्राह्मण-विन्यासैः: by (different) arrangements/placements of mantra portions and brāhmaṇa (explanatory/prose) portions

• स्वर-वर्ण-विपर्ययैः: by reversals/corruptions of Vedic accent (svara) and phonemes/letters (varṇa)

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating the Purana to the sages of Naimisharanya)