Shloka 47

युगधर्मवर्णनम् — चतुर्युग, गुण, धर्मपाद, तथा वार्तोत्पत्ति

Devanagari script

अन्यथा जीवितं तासां नास्ति त्रेतायुगात्यये हस्तोद्भवा ह्यपश्चैव भवन्ति बहुशस्तदा

Transliteration

anyathā jīvitaṃ tāsāṃ nāsti tretāyugātyaye hastodbhavā hyapaścaiva bhavanti bahuśastadā

Translation

Kung hindi gayon, sa pagtatapos ng Tretā-yuga ay wala silang ikabubuhay. Sapagkat sa panahong iyon, paulit-ulit na lumilitaw ang maraming nilalang na “isinilang mula sa kamay,” at maging yaong hindi “paśu” (hindi angkop sa kaayusang panghandog) ay nagkakaroon din.

Word by Word

• anyathā: otherwise

• jīvitam: life, survival

• tāsām: of them

• nāsti: does not exist

• tretā-yuga-atyaye: at the end of the Tretā-yuga

• hasta-udbhavāḥ: hand-born, arising from the hand (lit.)

• hi: indeed

• apaś: non-pashu / not fit for the sacrificial-pashu category (contextual)

• ca eva: and also

• bhavanti: become, arise

• bahuśaḥ: many times, repeatedly

• tadā: then

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating to the sages of Naimisharanya; contextual attribution)