Shloka 45

युगधर्मवर्णनम् — चतुर्युग, गुण, धर्मपाद, तथा वार्तोत्पत्ति

Devanagari script

दुदोह गां प्रयत्नेन सर्वभूतहिताय वै तदाप्रभृति चौषध्यः फालकृष्टास्त्वितस्ततः

Transliteration

dudoha gāṃ prayatnena sarvabhūtahitāya vai tadāprabhṛti cauṣadhyaḥ phālakṛṣṭāstvitastataḥ

Translation

सर्वभूतहिताय वै स प्रयत्नेन गां दुदोह। तदाप्रभृति चोषध्यः फालकृष्टाः सर्वतोऽभवन्॥

Word by Word

• दुदोह: he milked/extracted

• गां: the Earth (as a cow)

• प्रयत्नेन: with effort

• सर्वभूतहिताय: for the good of all beings

• वै: indeed

• तदाप्रभृति: from then onwards

• च: and

• औषध्यः: herbs/medicinal plants

• फालकृष्टाः: drawn forth by the plough (plough-produced)

• तु: indeed

• इतस्ततः: here and there/everywhere

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating the Purana to the sages; internal episode describing the king’s act for loka-saṅgraha)