Shloka 24
Adhyaya 49 — Primordial Human Creation, the Rise of Desire, and the Origins of Settlements, Measures, and Agriculture
तत्वारि तु सहस्राणि वर्षाणां मानुषाणि तु ।
आयुः प्रमाणं जीवन्ति न च क्लेशाद्विपत्तयः ॥
tatvāri tu sahasrāṇi varṣāṇāṃ mānuṣāṇi tu /
āyuḥ pramāṇaṃ jīvanti na ca kleśādvipattayaḥ
ਉਨ੍ਹਾਂ ਦੀ ਆਯੁ ਦਾ ਮਾਪ ਚਾਰ ਹਜ਼ਾਰ ਮਨੁੱਖੀ ਸਾਲ ਸੀ। ਉਹ ਉਸ ਪੂਰੇ ਸਮੇਂ ਤੱਕ ਜੀਉਂਦੇ ਰਹੇ, ਅਤੇ ਰੋਗ ਆਦਿ ਕਲੇਸ਼ਾਂ ਤੋਂ ਕੋਈ ਬਿਪਤਾ ਨਹੀਂ ਉੱਠਦੀ ਸੀ।
FAQs
Suffering and ‘vipatti’ are not intrinsic to embodiment; they are contingent on the moral-cosmic condition of an age. As order declines, lifespan contracts and afflictions multiply.
Manvantara/Pratisarga-style epochal metrics: lifespan standards and the quality of life in a given world-phase.
‘No kleśa-born calamities’ suggests a psyche not dominated by the kleśas (avidyā, asmitā, rāga, dveṣa, abhiniveśa); cosmology here mirrors yogic psychology.