Shloka 2

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

Devanagari script

कलौ प्रमादको रोगः सततं क्षुद्भयानि च अनावृष्टिभयं घोरं देशानां च विपर्ययः

Transliteration

kalau pramādako rogaḥ satataṃ kṣudbhayāni ca anāvṛṣṭibhayaṃ ghoraṃ deśānāṃ ca viparyayaḥ

Translation

В эпоху Кали господствует болезнь беспечности; страх голода вновь и вновь поднимается; есть грозный ужас засухи, и страны приходят в смуту и переворот правильного порядка.

Word by Word

• कलौ: in Kali-yuga

• प्रमादकः: causing heedlessness/neglect

• रोगः: disease/affliction

• सततम्: continually

• क्षुत्: hunger

• भयानि: fears/terrors

• च: and

• अनावृष्टि: absence of rain/drought

• भयम्: fear

• घोरम्: terrible/dreadful

• देशानाम्: of regions/countries

• च: and

• विपर्ययः: inversion/disorder/calamitous reversal

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating to the sages of Naimisharanya)