Shloka 98

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

Devanagari script

ऋषयो मनवश्चैव सर्वे तुल्यप्रयोजनाः एवं वर्णाश्रमाणां तु प्रविभागो युगे युगे

Transliteration

ṛṣayo manavaścaiva sarve tulyaprayojanāḥ evaṃ varṇāśramāṇāṃ tu pravibhāgo yuge yuge

Translation

ऋषयश्च मनवश्च सर्वे तुल्यप्रयोजनाः। एवं वर्णाश्रमाणां प्रविभागो युगे युगे विधीयते॥

Word by Word

• ऋषयः (ṛṣayaḥ): seers

• मनवः (manavaḥ): Manus/progenitors and lawgivers

• च एव (ca eva): and indeed

• सर्वे (sarve): all

• तुल्य-प्रयोजनाः (tulya-prayojanāḥ): having the same aim/purpose

• एवम् (evam): thus

• वर्ण-आश्रमाणाम् (varṇa-āśramāṇām): of the social-spiritual orders (varṇa and āśrama)

• तु (tu): however/indeed

• प्रविभागः (pravibhāgaḥ): distribution/classification

• युगे युगे (yuge yuge): in every yuga, age after age

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating the Linga Purana to the sages of Naimisharanya)