Shloka 8

युगधर्मवर्णनम् — चतुर्युग, गुण, धर्मपाद, तथा वार्तोत्पत्ति

Devanagari script

चत्वारि च सहस्राणि वर्षाणां तत्कृतं युगम् तस्य तावच्छती संध्या संध्यांशश् च तथाविधः

Transliteration

catvāri ca sahasrāṇi varṣāṇāṃ tatkṛtaṃ yugam tasya tāvacchatī saṃdhyā saṃdhyāṃśaś ca tathāvidhaḥ

Translation

കൃതയുഗം നാലായിരം വർഷങ്ങളുള്ളതാണ്. അതിന്റെ ആരംഭസന്ധ്യ അത്ര തന്നെ നൂറുവർഷങ്ങൾ; അവസാനസന്ധ്യാംശവും അതേ അളവാണ്.

Word by Word

• चत्वारि: four

• च: and

• सहस्राणि: thousands

• वर्षाणाम्: of years

• तत्-कृतम्: that which is called ‘Kṛta’/pertaining to Kṛta

• युगम्: age (yuga)

• तस्य: of it

• तावत्-शती: that many hundreds (i.e., 400)

• संध्या: junction/twilight period (opening transition)

• संध्यांशः: portion of the junction (closing transition)

• च: and

• तथा-विद्हः: of the same kind/measure

Speaker

Suta Goswami