Shloka 25

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

Devanagari script

युगान्तेषु भविष्यन्ति स्वरक्षणपरायणाः अट्टशूला जनपदाः शिवशूलाश्चतुष्पथाः

Transliteration

yugānteṣu bhaviṣyanti svarakṣaṇaparāyaṇāḥ aṭṭaśūlā janapadāḥ śivaśūlāścatuṣpathāḥ

Translation

युगान्तेषु जनाः सर्वे स्वरक्षणपरायणाः भविष्यन्ति। अट्टशूलैः जनपदाः सशूलाः स्युः, चतुष्पथेषु शिवशूलचिह्नानि दृश्यन्ते॥

Word by Word

• युगान्तेषु: at the end of the yugas

• भविष्यन्ति: will come to be/will occur

• स्वरक्षण-परायणाः: devoted to self-protection/self-preservation

• अट्ट-शूला: bristling with raised tridents (aṭṭa = lifted/brandished, śūla = trident/spear)

• जनपदाः: towns, districts, settlements

• शिव-शूलाः: bearing Śiva’s trident/marked by Śiva’s śūla

• चतुष्पथाः: four-way crossroads/intersections

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating to the sages at Naimisharanya)