Shloka 77

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

Devanagari script

सप्त सप्तर्षिभिश्चैव तत्र ते तु व्यवस्थिताः ब्रह्मक्षत्रविशः शूद्रा बीजार्थं ये स्मृता इह

Transliteration

sapta saptarṣibhiścaiva tatra te tu vyavasthitāḥ brahmakṣatraviśaḥ śūdrā bījārthaṃ ye smṛtā iha

Translation

सप्त च सप्तर्षिभिः सार्धं तत्र ते व्यवस्थिताः। ब्रह्मक्षत्रविशः शूद्रा बीजार्थं स्मृताः इह॥

Word by Word

• सप्त (sapta): seven

• सप्तर्षिभिः (saptarṣibhiḥ): by/with the seven sages

• च एव (ca eva): and indeed

• तत्र (tatra): there

• ते (te): they

• तु (tu): then/indeed

• व्यवस्थिताः (vyavasthitāḥ): established, properly arranged

• ब्रह्म (brahma): Brāhmaṇa order/priestly class

• क्षत्र (kṣatra): Kṣatriya order/royal class

• विशः (viśaḥ): Vaiśya order/commoners/merchants

• शूद्राः (śūdrāḥ): Śūdra order/service class

• बीजार्थम् (bījārtham): for the purpose of seed, as the causal seed-principle

• ये (ye): who/which

• स्मृताः (smṛtāḥ): remembered, taught in tradition

• इह (iha): here (in this teaching/this world).

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating the creation-order as taught in the Linga Purana)