Shloka 3

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

Devanagari script

न प्रामाण्यं श्रुतेरस्ति नृणां चाधर्मसेवनम् अधार्मिकास्त्वनाचारा महाकोपाल्पचेतसः

Transliteration

na prāmāṇyaṃ śruterasti nṛṇāṃ cādharmasevanam adhārmikāstvanācārā mahākopālpacetasaḥ

Translation

Entre os homens, a autoridade do Veda já não é sustentada, e eles se entregam à prática do adharma. Os injustos vivem sem reta conduta—prontos a grande ira e de entendimento pequeno.

Word by Word

• na: not

• prāmāṇyam: (accepted) authority/validity

• śruteḥ: of Śruti (the Veda)

• asti: exists/is

• nṛṇām: of men/people

• ca: and

• adharma-sevanam: resorting to/serving adharma

• adhārmikāḥ: the unrighteous

• tu: indeed/but

• anācārāḥ: without proper conduct/discipline

• mahā-kopāḥ: of great anger/very wrathful

• alpa-cetasaḥ: of little intelligence/poor discernment

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating to the sages of Naimiṣāraṇya)