Shloka 44

युगधर्मवर्णनम् — चतुर्युग, गुण, धर्मपाद, तथा वार्तोत्पत्ति

Devanagari script

विपर्ययेण चौषध्यः प्रनष्टास्ताश्चतुर्दश मत्वा धरां प्रविष्टास्ता इत्यौषध्यः पितामहः

Transliteration

viparyayeṇa cauṣadhyaḥ pranaṣṭāstāścaturdaśa matvā dharāṃ praviṣṭāstā ityauṣadhyaḥ pitāmahaḥ

Translation

विपर्ययेण चौषध्यः प्रनष्टास्ताश्चतुर्दश । मत्वा धरां प्रविष्टास्ता इत्यौषध्यः पितामहः ॥

Word by Word

• viparyayeṇa: by reversal/contrary change (cosmic inversion)

• ca: and

• auṣadhyaḥ: medicinal herbs/plants

• pranaṣṭāḥ: destroyed, lost

• tāḥ: those

• caturdaśa: fourteen

• matvā: having understood/considered

• dharām: the Earth (Dharā)

• praviṣṭāḥ: entered, became absorbed

• iti: thus

• auṣadhyaḥ: the herbs (as the topic)

• pitāmahaḥ: the Grandfather, Brahmā

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating Brahma’s account within the Purva-Bhaga creation narrative)