कलौ हीनायुषो मर्त्या दुर्बलाः श्रमपीडिताः । दुर्मेधसो दुःखभाजो धर्माचारविवर्जिताः
kalau hīnāyuṣo martyā durbalāḥ śramapīḍitāḥ | durmedhaso duḥkhabhājo dharmācāravivarjitāḥ
کَلی یُگ میں فانی انسان کم عُمر، کمزور اور محنت کے رنج سے دبے ہوتے ہیں؛ اُن کی سمجھ دھندلا جاتی ہے، وہ دکھ کے حصّہ دار بنتے ہیں اور دھرم آچار سے خالی رہتے ہیں۔
Bādarāyaṇa (Vyāsa) / Purāṇic narrator voice (contextual)
Scene: A procession of exhausted people carrying burdens, faces clouded; in the background a small lamp-lit kathā circle offers refuge and clarity, contrasting darkness and light.
It diagnoses Kali Yuga’s spiritual and social weakness, setting the need for accessible dharma like Purāṇa-śravaṇa.
None; the verse provides Kali Yuga context rather than a site-specific māhātmya.
No direct ritual is prescribed here; it describes conditions that justify simpler, compassion-based spiritual means.