Shloka 80

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

Devanagari script

श्रौतस्मार्तकृतानां च धर्मे सप्तर्षिदर्शिते केचिद्धर्मव्यवस्थार्थं तिष्ठन्तीह युगक्षये

Transliteration

śrautasmārtakṛtānāṃ ca dharme saptarṣidarśite keciddharmavyavasthārthaṃ tiṣṭhantīha yugakṣaye

Translation

श्रुतिस्मृतिप्रतिपादिते धर्मे सप्तर्षिभिर्दर्शिते च, केचिद् धर्मव्यवस्थापनार्थं युगक्षयेऽपि इह तिष्ठन्ति।

Word by Word

• श्रौत (śrauta): based on Vedic revelation/Śruti

• स्मार्त (smārta): based on Smṛti tradition

• कृतानाम् (kṛtānām): of those that are practiced/established

• च (ca): and

• धर्मे (dharme): in Dharma / in the religious law

• सप्तर्षि-दर्शिते (saptarṣi-darśite): shown/revealed by the Seven Ṛṣis

• केचित् (kecit): some

• धर्म-व्यवस्था-अर्थम् (dharma-vyavasthā-artham): for the sake of arranging/maintaining Dharma’s order

• तिष्ठन्ति (tiṣṭhanti): they stand/remain

• इह (iha): here (in the world)

• युग-क्षये (yuga-kṣaye): at the end of the yuga

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating the Linga Purana to the sages at Naimisharanya; describing the continuity of Dharma at yuga-end)