Shloka 26

कृतयुगवर्णनम् तथा राजधर्मोपदेशः

Kṛtayuga Description and Instruction on Royal Dharma

Devanagari script

तस्य वर्षशतं संधि: संध्यांशश्व॒ ततः परम्‌ | संधिसंध्यांशयोस्तुल्यं प्रमाणमुपधारय,तदनन्तर एक हजार दिव्य वर्ष कलियुगका मान कहा गया है, सौ वर्ष उसकी संध्याके और सौ वर्ष संध्यांशके बताये गये हैं (इस प्रकार कलियुग बारह सौ दिव्य वर्षोंका होता है)। संध्या और संध्यांशका मान बराबर-बराबर ही समझो

Transliteration

tasya varṣaśataṁ sandhiḥ sandhyāṁśaś ca tataḥ param | sandhi-sandhyāṁśayor tulyaṁ pramāṇam upadhāraya ||

Translation

Вайшампаяна сказал: «Для той эпохи переходный период (sandhi) — сто лет, и затем завершающая переходная доля (sandhyāṁśa) — тоже сто. Разумей, что мера sandhi и sandhyāṁśa одинакова».

Word by Word

तस्यof that (of it)

वर्षशतम्a hundred years

सन्धिःthe junction-period (sandhi)

सन्ध्यांशःthe twilight-portion (sandhyāṃśa)

चand

ततःthereafter; from that

परम्afterwards; further

सन्धिin the sandhi

सन्ध्यांशयोःof (the two) sandhyāṃśas / of sandhyā and sandhyāṃśa (as a pair)

तुल्यम्equal

प्रमाणम्measure; duration

उपधारयunderstand; take into consideration

Speaker

वैशम्पायन उवाच

Characters & Entities

Vaiśampāyana

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse defines a rule for yuga chronology: the transitional period (sandhi) and the concluding transitional portion (sandhyāṁśa) are of equal duration—each stated here as one hundred years for the age being described.

What is happening in the narrative?

Vaiśampāyana is explaining the measured structure of an age (yuga), specifying how long its junction-periods last and instructing the listener to treat the sandhi and sandhyāṁśa as equal in length.