Shloka 14

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

Devanagari script

नीचस्येव तदा वाक्यं वदन्ति विनयेन तम् उच्चासनस्थान् शूद्रांश् च द्विजमध्ये द्विजर्षभ

Transliteration

nīcasyeva tadā vākyaṃ vadanti vinayena tam uccāsanasthān śūdrāṃś ca dvijamadhye dvijarṣabha

Translation

ਤਦ, ਹੇ ਦਵਿਜ-ਵ੍ਰਿਸ਼ਭ, ਉਹ ਉਸ ਨਾਲ ਨੀਚ ਵਰਗਾ ਸਮਝ ਕੇ ਨਿਮਰਤਾ ਨਾਲ ਬੋਲਦੇ ਹਨ—ਖ਼ਾਸ ਕਰਕੇ ਦਵਿਜਾਂ ਦੀ ਸਭਾ ਵਿੱਚ ਉੱਚ ਆਸਨ ਤੇ ਬੈਠੇ ਸ਼ੂਦਰਾਂ ਨਾਲ।

Word by Word

• नीचस्येव: as if (he were) low-born/low-status

• तदा: then

• वाक्यम्: words, speech

• वदन्ति: they speak

• विनयेन: with humility, with deference

• तम्: to him

• उच्चासनस्थान्: seated on high seats

• शूद्रान्: Śūdras

• च: and

• द्विजमध्ये: in the midst of the twice-born

• द्विजर्षभ: O bull among the twice-born (vocative).

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating to the sages; addressing a dvija listener within the narrative frame)