Shloka 48

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

Devanagari script

संध्यांश एषा कलियुगावस्था संध्यांशं तु निबोध मे युगे युगे च हीयन्ते त्रींस्त्रीन्पादांस्तु सिद्धयः

Transliteration

saṃdhyāṃśa eṣā kaliyugāvasthā saṃdhyāṃśaṃ tu nibodha me yuge yuge ca hīyante trīṃstrīnpādāṃstu siddhayaḥ

Translation

एषा कलियुगावस्था संध्यांशः; तं संध्यांशं मे निबोध। युगे युगे हि सिद्धयः क्रमशः त्रींस्त्रीन् पादान् हीयन्ते॥

Word by Word

• संध्यांशः: twilight-portion

• एषा: this

• कलियुग-अवस्था: the state/condition of Kali-yuga

• संध्यांशम्: the twilight-fraction (as a doctrinal measure of time/decline)

• तु: indeed

• निबोध: understand/know

• मे: from me

• युगे युगे: in each yuga, age after age

• च: and

• हीयन्ते: decline, are reduced

• त्रीन् त्रीन्: three and three (repeatedly/stepwise)

• पादान्: quarters/parts/steps

• तु: indeed

• सिद्धयः: siddhis, spiritual perfections/attainments

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating the yuga-teachings within the Linga Purana discourse)