Shloka 88

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

Devanagari script

एतदेव तु सर्वेषां युगानां लक्षणं स्मृतम् एषां चतुर्युगाणां च गुणिता ह्येकसप्ततिः

Transliteration

etadeva tu sarveṣāṃ yugānāṃ lakṣaṇaṃ smṛtam eṣāṃ caturyugāṇāṃ ca guṇitā hyekasaptatiḥ

Translation

Это и помнится как отличительный признак всех юг. А общее число этих циклов четырёх эпох (caturyuga), если их сложить, говорится, составляет семьдесят один.

Word by Word

• etat: this

• eva: indeed/alone

• tu: but/indeed

• sarveṣām: of all

• yugānām: of the yugas (world-ages)

• lakṣaṇam: characteristic/defining mark

• smṛtam: remembered/traditionally taught

• eṣām: of these

• caturyugāṇām: of the four-yuga cycles (caturyugas)

• ca: and

• guṇitā: multiplied/totaled/reckoned

• hi: indeed

• ekasaptatiḥ: seventy-one

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating the Linga Purana chronology to the sages of Naimisharanya)