Shloka 25

Adhyaya 4: अहोरात्र-युग-मन्वन्तर-कल्पमान तथा प्रलयान्ते सृष्ट्युपक्रमः

Devanagari script

द्वापरश्च कलिश्चैव युगान्येतानि सुव्रताः अथ संवत्सरा दृष्टा मानुषेण प्रमाणतः

Transliteration

dvāparaśca kaliścaiva yugānyetāni suvratāḥ atha saṃvatsarā dṛṣṭā mānuṣeṇa pramāṇataḥ

Translation

ਹੇ ਸੁਵ੍ਰਤ ਧਾਰਿਓ, ਦ੍ਵਾਪਰ ਅਤੇ ਕਲੀ—ਇਹ ਵੀ ਯੁਗ ਹਨ। ਹੁਣ ਸੰਵਤਸਰਾਂ ਦਾ ਮਾਪ ਮਨੁੱਖੀ ਪ੍ਰਮਾਣ ਅਨੁਸਾਰ ਸਮਝਣਾ ਚਾਹੀਦਾ ਹੈ।

Word by Word

• द्वापरः: Dvāpara (the third age)

• च: and

• कलिः: Kali (the fourth age)

• च एव: and indeed/also

• युगानि: the Yugas (world-ages)

• एतानि: these

• सुव्रताः: O virtuous ones / O observers of good vows

• अथ: now/then

• संवत्सराः: years

• दृष्टाः: are seen/are presented/are stated

• मानुषेण: by humans/according to human (scale)

• प्रमाणतः: as a measure/according to valid measure

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating to the sages of Naimisharanya)