Shloka 24

युगधर्मवर्णनम् — चतुर्युग, गुण, धर्मपाद, तथा वार्तोत्पत्ति

Devanagari script

रागलोभात्मको भावस् तदा ह्याकस्मिको ऽभवत् विपर्ययेण तासां तु तेन तत्कालभाविना

Transliteration

rāgalobhātmako bhāvas tadā hyākasmiko 'bhavat viparyayeṇa tāsāṃ tu tena tatkālabhāvinā

Translation

रागलोभात्मको भावस्तदा ह्याकस्मिकोऽभवत्। विपर्ययेण तासां तु तेन तत्कालभाविना॥

Word by Word

• राग (rāga): attachment, passion

• लोभ (lobha): greed

• आत्मकः (ātmakaḥ): consisting of, having the nature of

• भावः (bhāvaḥ): mental state, disposition

• तदा (tadā): then

• हि (hi): indeed

• आकस्मिकः (ākasmikaḥ): sudden, unexpected

• अभवत् (abhavat): arose, came to be

• विपर्ययेण (viparyayeṇa): by reversal, by turning into the opposite

• तासाम् (tāsām): of them, of those (beings)

• तु (tu): but

• तेन (tena): by that, through that

• तत्कालभाविना (tatkāla-bhāvinā): by the state arising at that time / by the time-conditioned state

Speaker

Suta Goswami