Shloka 60

कृतयुगवर्णनम् तथा राजधर्मोपदेशः

Kṛtayuga Description and Instruction on Royal Dharma

Devanagari script

सप्तवर्षष्टवर्षाश्च स्त्रियों गर्भधरा नूप । दशद्वादशवर्षाणां पुंसां पुत्र: प्रजायते,राजन! युगान्तकालमें सात-आठ वर्षकी स्त्रियाँ गर्भ धारण करेंगी और दस-बारह वर्षकी अवस्थावाले पुरुषोंके भी पुत्र होंगे

Transliteration

saptavarṣāṣṭavarṣāś ca striyo garbhadharā nūpa | daśadvādaśavarṣāṇāṃ puṃsāṃ putraḥ prajāyate, rājan ||

Translation

وَیشَمپایَن نے کہا—اے راجَن، اُس یُگانت کے زوال کے زمانے میں سات آٹھ برس کی لڑکیاں بھی حاملہ ہوں گی، اور دس بارہ برس کے لڑکے بھی بیٹے پیدا کریں گے۔

Word by Word

• सप्तवर्षाः: seven-year-old (women)
• सप्तवर्षाः: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: सप्तवर्ष
• Form: Feminine, Nominative, Plural

• अष्टवर्षाः: eight-year-old (women)
• अष्टवर्षाः: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: अष्टवर्ष
• Form: Feminine, Nominative, Plural

• च: and
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: च

• स्त्रियः: women
• स्त्रियः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: स्त्री
• Form: Feminine, Nominative, Plural

• गर्भधराः: pregnant; bearing a fetus
• गर्भधराः: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: गर्भधर
• Form: Feminine, Nominative, Plural

• नृप: O king
• Type: Noun
• Root: नृप
• Form: Masculine, Vocative, Singular

• दशद्वादशवर्षाणाम्: of (those) of ten and twelve years (i.e., aged 10–12)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: दशद्वादशवर्ष
• Form: Masculine/Neuter, Genitive, Plural

• पुंसाम्: of men
• Type: Noun
• Root: पुंस्
• Form: Masculine, Genitive, Plural

• पुत्रः: a son
• पुत्रः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: पुत्र
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• प्रजायते: is born; comes into being
• Type: Verb
• Root: प्र+जन्
• Form: Lat, Present, Atmanepada, Third, Singular

• राजन्: O king
• Type: Noun
• Root: राजन्
• Form: Masculine, Vocative, Singular

Speaker

वैशम्पायन उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Vaiśampāyana
• rājan (the king addressed)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse presents a symptom of yuga-decline: the disruption of normal life-stages and social order, framed as a warning to rulers about moral and societal deterioration.

What is happening in the narrative?

Vaiśampāyana is describing ominous end-of-age conditions to the king he is addressing, listing abnormal social and biological phenomena as markers of a deteriorating era.