Shloka 13

युगधर्मवर्णनम् — चतुर्युग, गुण, धर्मपाद, तथा वार्तोत्पत्ति

Devanagari script

आद्ये कृतयुगे धर्मश् चतुष्पादः सनातनः त्रेतायुगे त्रिपादस्तु द्विपादो द्वापरे स्थितः

Transliteration

ādye kṛtayuge dharmaś catuṣpādaḥ sanātanaḥ tretāyuge tripādastu dvipādo dvāpare sthitaḥ

Translation

Na primeira era, o Kṛta-yuga, o Dharma—ordem eterna—permanece firme sobre quatro pés. No Tretā-yuga ele fica com três; e no Dvāpara-yuga estabelece-se em dois. Assim se desenrola o declínio da retidão pela lei do tempo; contudo Śiva, o Pati além dos guṇa, permanece o refúgio imutável para os paśu vinculados.

Word by Word

• ādye: in the first

• kṛta-yuge: in the Kṛta-yuga (Satya-yuga)

• dharmaḥ: Dharma, righteousness/cosmic order

• catuṣ-pādaḥ: four-footed, having four supports

• sanātanaḥ: eternal

• tretā-yuge: in the Tretā-yuga

• tri-pādaḥ: three-footed

• tu: indeed/but

• dvi-pādaḥ: two-footed

• dvāpare: in the Dvāpara-yuga

• sthitaḥ: established, standing

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating the Purana to the sages at Naimisharanya)