Shloka 12

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

Devanagari script

अक्षत्रियाश् च राजानो विप्राः शूद्रोपजीविनः आसनस्था द्विजान्दृष्ट्वा न चलन्त्यल्पबुद्धयः

Transliteration

akṣatriyāś ca rājāno viprāḥ śūdropajīvinaḥ āsanasthā dvijāndṛṣṭvā na calantyalpabuddhayaḥ

Translation

真のクシャトリヤでない王たち、またシュードラの生計に依って生きるブラーフマナでさえ——座したまま二度生まれ（ドヴィジャ）を見ても立ち上がらない；そのような者は浅智である。シヴァ派の見地では、これはパーシャ（束縛）に縛られた行いの徴であり、ダルマを敬わぬことはパシュ（衆生）の浄化と、シヴァの恩寵（アヌグラハ）を受ける備えを妨げる。

Word by Word

• अक्षत्रियाः: not true Kṣatriyas / unworthy rulers

• च: and

• राजानः: kings

• विप्राः: Brahmins

• शूद्रोपजीविनः: those who subsist by Śūdra-occupations

• आसनस्थाः: seated

• द्विजान्: the twice-born (dvijas)

• दृष्ट्वा: having seen

• न: not

• चलन्ति: move/rise (from the seat)

• अल्पबुद्धयः: small-minded, of little discernment

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating to the sages of Naimisharanya)