Shloka 27

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

Devanagari script

सर्वे वणिग्जनाश्चापि भविष्यन्त्यधमे युगे कुशीलचर्याः पाषण्डैर् वृथारूपैः समावृताः

Transliteration

sarve vaṇigjanāścāpi bhaviṣyantyadhame yuge kuśīlacaryāḥ pāṣaṇḍair vṛthārūpaiḥ samāvṛtāḥ

Translation

ആ അധമ യുഗത്തിൽ വണികജനങ്ങളും ദുഷ്ചര്യയിൽ പതിക്കും. പൊള്ളയായ ബാഹ്യരൂപമുള്ള പാഷണ്ഡ വഞ്ചകർ മൂടി ധർമ്മം മറഞ്ഞുപോകും.

Word by Word

• सर्वे: all

• वणिग्जनाः: merchants/traders

• च अपि: and also

• भविष्यन्ति: will become

• अधमे: lowest/most base

• युगे: in the age (yuga)

• कुशीलचर्याः: of vile/immoral conduct

• पाषण्डैः: by heretics/false religionists

• वृथारूपैः: by those with vain/meaningless outward forms

• समावृताः: covered/overlaid/obscured

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating to the sages of Naimisharanya)