Shloka 86

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

Devanagari script

चतुर्युगानां सर्वेषाम् अनेनैव तु साधनम् युग = हऺहेरे ज़ेइतेइन्हेइतेन् एषा चतुर्युगावृत्तिर् आ सहस्राद् गुणीकृता

Transliteration

caturyugānāṃ sarveṣām anenaiva tu sādhanam yuga = höhere Zeiteinheiten eṣā caturyugāvṛttir ā sahasrād guṇīkṛtā

Translation

अनेनैव तु साधनेन चतुर्युगानां सर्वेषां परिमाणं सिद्ध्यति। एषा चतुर्युगावृत्तिः सहस्रगुणिता महत्कालमानं भवति॥

Word by Word

• चतुर्युगानाम् (caturyugānām): of the four-yuga cycles

• सर्वेषाम् (sarveṣām): of all

• अनेन एव (anena eva): by this alone/through this very measure

• तु (tu): indeed

• साधनम् (sādhanam): means of calculation/establishing measure

• एषा (eṣā): this

• चतुर्युग-आवृत्तिः (caturyuga-āvṛttiḥ): repetition/cycle of the caturyuga

• आ (ā): up to/as far as/when extended to

• सहस्रात् (sahasrāt): by a thousand

• गुणीकृता (guṇīkṛtā): multiplied/made into a multiple

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating the Purana’s cosmological doctrine to the sages at Naimisharanya)