Shloka 7

Adhyaya 17: लिङ्गोद्भव—ब्रह्मविष्ण्वहङ्कार-शमनं, ओंकार-प्रादुर्भावः, मन्त्र-तत्त्वं च

Devanagari script

स्थितिकाले तदा पूर्णे ततः प्रत्याहृते तथा चतुर्युगसहस्रान्ते सत्यलोकं गते सुराः

Transliteration

sthitikāle tadā pūrṇe tataḥ pratyāhṛte tathā caturyugasahasrānte satyalokaṃ gate surāḥ

Translation

ਜਦੋਂ ਸਥਿਤੀ-ਕਾਲ ਪੂਰਾ ਹੋਇਆ ਅਤੇ ਪ੍ਰਲਯ ਨੇੜੇ ਆਇਆ, ਤਦ ਚਤੁਰਯੁਗਾਂ ਦੇ ਹਜ਼ਾਰ ਚੱਕਰਾਂ ਦੇ ਅੰਤ ਤੇ ਦੇਵ ਸਤ੍ਯਲੋਕ ਨੂੰ ਚਲੇ ਗਏ।

Word by Word

• स्थितिकाले: during the period of sustenance (sthiti)

• तदा: then

• पूर्णे: having been completed/fulfilled

• ततः: thereafter

• प्रत्याहृते: when reabsorption/withdrawal (pratyāhāra, pralaya) was set in motion

• तथा: likewise/and

• चतुर्युगसहस्रान्ते: at the end of a thousand (sahasra) sets of four yugas (caturyuga)

• सत्यलोकं: to Satyaloka (Brahma-loka)

• गते: having gone

• सुराः: the Devas (gods)

Speaker

Suta Goswami