Shloka 64

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

Devanagari script

उपहिंसन्ति चान्योन्यं प्रणिपत्य परस्परम् अराजके युगवशात् संशये समुपस्थिते

Transliteration

upahiṃsanti cānyonyaṃ praṇipatya parasparam arājake yugavaśāt saṃśaye samupasthite

Translation

अराजके युगवशात् संशये समुपस्थिते, परस्परं प्रणिपत्यापि चान्योन्यमुपहिंसन्ति जनाः।

Word by Word

• उपहिंसन्ति: they injure/afflict

• च: and

• अन्योन्यं: one another

• प्रणिपत्य: having bowed/prostrated

• परस्परम्: mutually/to each other

• अराजके: when there is no king/rightful governance

• युगवशात्: due to the force/compulsion of the (degenerate) age

• संशये: in doubt/uncertainty

• समुपस्थिते: having arisen/being present

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating to the sages of Naimisharanya)