Shloka 51

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

Devanagari script

गोत्रे ऽस्मिन्वै चन्द्रमसो नाम्ना प्रमितिरुच्यते मानवस्य तु सो ऽंशेन पूर्वं स्वायंभुवे ऽन्तरे

Transliteration

gotre 'sminvai candramaso nāmnā pramitirucyate mānavasya tu so 'ṃśena pūrvaṃ svāyaṃbhuve 'ntare

Translation

このゴートラにおいて、「プラミティ」と名づけられるプラジャーパティがいると説かれ、また「チャンドラマス」の異名で知られる。彼はマヌの一分の流出であり、かつてスヴァーヤンブヴァ・マンヴァンタラに現れた。

Word by Word

• gotre: in the gotra/lineage

• asmin: in this

• vai: indeed

• candramasaḥ: of/known as Candramas (Moon-like, lunar)

• nāmnā: by name/epithet

• pramitiḥ: Pramiti (a progenitor)

• ucyate: is said/is called

• mānavasya: of Manu

• tu: and/but

• saḥ: he

• aṃśena: by a portion/partial manifestation

• pūrvam: formerly/earlier

• svāyaṃbhuve: in (the reign of) Svāyambhuva Manu

• antare: within (the Manvantara period)

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating Purāṇic genealogy to the sages of Naimisharanya)