pari-kulkarni/itihasa-sanskrit-en-filtered huggingface dataset:
Sanskrit: सुमहानपि मत्स्यस्तु स मनोनयतस्तदा। आसीद् यथेष्टहार्यश्च स्पर्शगन्धसुखस्य वै॥
English: Notwithstanding its huge size Manu easily carried it and its touch and smell were also pleasant to him.
Sanskrit: यदा समुद्रे प्रक्षिप्तः स मत्स्यो मनुना तदा। तत एनमिदं वाक्यं स्पयमान इवाब्रवीत्।॥
English: When that fish was thrown into the sea by Manu, it smilingly spoke these words to Manu,
Sanskrit: भगवन् हि कृता रक्षा त्वया सर्वा विशेषतः। प्राप्तकालं तु यत् कार्यं त्वया तच्छूयतां मम॥
English: “O exalted one, you have protected me with special care; hear what you should do in the fullness of time.
Sanskrit: अचिराद् भगवन् भौममिदं स्थावरजङ्गमम्। सर्वमेव महाभाग प्रलयं वै गमिष्यति॥
English: O exalted one, O greatly blessed one; the dissolution of all this mobile and immobile world is now near at hand.
Sanskrit: सम्प्रक्षालनकालोऽयं लोकानां समुपस्थितः। तस्मात् त्वां बोधयाम्यद्य यत् ते हितमनुत्तमम्॥
English: The proper time for purging off this earth is almost come; therefore I tell you what will be good for you.
Sanskrit: त्रसानां स्थावराणां च यच्चेङ्गं यच्च नेङ्गति। तस्य सर्वस्य सम्प्राप्तः कालः परमदारुणः॥
English: The terrible doom has now come to the mobile and the immobile things of the creation, those that have locomotion and those that have not.
Sanskrit: नौश्च कारयितव्या ते दृढा युक्तवटारका। तत्र सप्तर्षिभिः सार्धमारुहेथा महामुने॥
English: You should (at once) build a strong and huge ark and furnish it with a long rope. O great Rishis, get into it with the seven Rishis.
Sanskrit: बीजानि चैव सर्वाणि यथोक्तानि द्विजैः पुरा। तस्यामारोहयेर्नावि सुसंगुप्तानि भागशः॥
English: Take with you all the different seeds which were enumerated in the days of yore by the twice-born Brahmanas; and you must separately and carefully preserve them.
Sanskrit: नौस्थश्च मां प्रतीक्षेथास्ततो मुनिजनप्रिय। आगमिष्याम्यहं शृङ्गी विज्ञेयस्तेन तापस॥
English: O beloved of the Rishis, while remaining in that ark wait for me, and I shall appear to you in the shape of a homed animal. O ascetic, recognise me then.
Sanskrit: एवमेतत् त्वया कार्यमापृष्टोऽसि व्रजाम्यहम्। ता न शक्या महत्यो वै आपस्ततु मया विना॥
English: I now depart, you should act according to my instructions, for without my help, you cannot save yourself from the fearful flood.”
Sanskrit: नाभिशक्यमिदं चापि वचनं मे त्वया विभो। एवं करिष्य इति तं स मत्स्यं प्रत्यभाषत॥
English: He (Manu) then thus replied to that fish, "O lord, I do not doubt all that you have said. I shall do all this."
Sanskrit: जग्मतुश्च यथाकाममनुज्ञाप्य परस्परम्। ततो मनुर्महाराज यथोक्तं मत्स्यकेन ह॥
English: Giving instructions to each other, they both went away as they pleased. O great king, then Manu as told by the fish,
Sanskrit: बीजान्यादाय सर्वाणि सागरं पुप्लुवे तदा। नौकया शुभया वीर महोर्मिणमरिंदम॥
English: O chastiser of foes, O hero, procured all the different seeds and set sail in an excellent vessel on the surging sea.
Sanskrit: चिन्तयामास च मनुस्तं पृथिवीपते। स च तच्चिन्तितं ज्ञात्वा मत्स्यः परपुरंजय॥
English: O ruler of earth, O conqueror of hostile cities, he thought of that fish and that fish also, knowing his thought,
Sanskrit: शृङ्गी तत्राजगामाशु तदा भरतसत्तम। तं दृष्ट्वा मनुजव्याघ्र मनुर्मत्स्यं जलार्णवे॥ शृङ्गिणं तं यथोक्तेन रूपेणादिमिवोच्छ्रितम्। वटारकमयं पाशमथ मत्स्यस्य मूर्धनि॥
English: O best of the Bharata race, appeared there with horns in its head. O foremost of men, seeing in the ocean that fish with the horn emerging like a rock (as he was told before, he (Manu) threw the noose (made by the rope) on the head of that fish,
Sanskrit: मनुर्मनुजशार्दूल तस्मिन् शृङ्गे न्यवेशयत्। संयतस्तेन पाशेन मत्स्यः परपुरंजय॥ वेगेन महता नावं प्राकर्षल्लवणाम्भसि। स च तांस्तारयन् नावा समुद्रं मनुजेश्वर॥ नृत्यमानमिवोर्मीभिर्गर्जमानमिवाम्भसा। क्षोभ्यमाणा महाबातैः सा नौस्तस्मिन् महोदधौ॥ घूर्णते चपलेव स्त्री मत्ता परपुरंजय। नैव भूमिर्न च दिशः प्रदिशो वा चकाशिरे॥
English: O foremost of men, O conqueror of hostile cities, fattened by the noose, the fish towed the ark with great force over the salt water. O best of men, it dragged him in that vessel in the roaring and bellowing sea. Tossed by the tempest on the great ocean, the vessel reeled about like a drunken harlot. O conqueror of hostile cities, neither land nor the four cardinal points of the horizon could be then distinguished.
Sanskrit: सर्वमाम्भसमेवासीत् खं द्योश्च नरपुङ्गव। एवंभूते तदा लोके संकुले भरतर्षभ॥
English: O foremost of men, there was water everywhere; the water covered the heaven and the sky. O best of the Bharata race, when the world was thus flooded,
Sanskrit: अदृश्यन्तर्षयः सप्त मनुर्मत्स्यस्तथैव च। एवं बहून् वर्षगणांस्तां नावं सोऽथ मत्स्यकः॥ चकर्षातन्द्रितो राजंस्तस्मिन् सलिलसंचये। ततो हिमवतः शृङ्ग यत् परं भरतर्षभ।॥ तत्राकर्षत् ततो नावं स मत्स्यः कुरुनन्दन। अथाब्रवीत् तदा मत्स्यस्तानृषीन् प्रहसन् शनैः॥
English: None but Manu, the seven Rishis and the fish could be seen. O king, for many years it diligently dragged the boat on the flood. Then, O descendant of Kuru, O best of the Bharata race, it then dragged the ark to the peak of the Himalayas. Then that fish smilingly spoke thus to those Rishis.
Sanskrit: अस्मिन् हिमवतः शृङ्गे नावं बध्नीत मा चिरम्। सा बद्धा तत्र तैस्तूर्णमृषिभिर्भरतर्षभ॥
English: "Without delay bind the ark to peak of the Himalayas." O best of the Bharata race, they soon tied the vessel there.
Sanskrit: नौमत्स्यस्य वचः श्रुत्वा शृङ्गे हिमवतस्तदा। तच्च नौबन्धनं नाम शृङ्गं हिमवतः परम्॥
English: On the Himalayan peakon hearing the words of the fish. Since that day that great Himalayan peak is called Naukabandhana.
Sanskrit: ख्यातमद्यापि कौन्तेय तद् विद्धि भरतर्षभ। अथाब्रवीदनिमिषस्तानृषीन् सहितस्तदा॥
English: And is celebrated as such up to date. O son of Kunti, know this. Then that fish thus spoke to those Rishis assembled together,
Sanskrit: अहं प्रजापतिर्ब्रह्मा मत्परं नाधिगम्यते। मत्स्यरूपेण यूयं च मयास्मान्मोक्षिता भयात्॥
English: “I am the Lord of creatures, Brahma; none is greater than myself. In ihe form of a fish I have saved you from this fear.
Sanskrit: मनुना च प्रजाः सर्वाः सदेवासुरमानुषाः। इष्टव्याः सर्वलोकाश्च यच्चेङ्गं यच्च नेङ्गति॥
English: Manu will create all beings, gods Asuras and men and all those who have power of locomotion and who have not.
Sanskrit: तपया चापि तीव्रण प्रतिभास्य भविष्यति। मत्प्रसादात् प्रजासर्गे न च मोहं गमिष्यति॥
English: By practising severe asceticism, he will acquire this power. With my blessings, illusion will have no power over him."
Sanskrit: इत्युक्त्वा वचनं मत्स्यः क्षणेनादर्शनं गतः। इष्टुकामः प्रजाश्चापि मनुर्वैवस्वतः स्वयम्॥
English: Having said this, the fish disappeared in a moment. Vaivasvata Manu also became esirous of creating the creatures.
Sanskrit: प्रमूढोऽभूत् प्रजासर्गे तपस्तेपे महत् ततः। तपसा महता युक्तः सोऽथ उरष्टुं प्रचक्रमे॥ सर्वाः प्रजा मनुः साक्षाद् यथावद् भरतर्षभ। इत्येतन्मात्स्यकं नाम पुराणं परिकीर्तितम्॥
English: In this work of creation, illusion overtook him: he therefore performed great asceticism, Having obtained ascetic success, O best of the Bharata race, Manu again took up the work of creation in proper and exact order. I have thus narrated to you the old story called the Legend of the Fish.
Sanskrit: आख्यानमिदमाख्यातं सर्वपापहरं मया। य इदं शृणुयान्नित्यं मनोश्चरितमादितः। स सुखी सर्वपूर्णार्थः सर्वलोकमियान्नरः॥
English: He who every day hears this old history of Manu obtains all happiness and all other objects of desires and goes to heaven.
Sanskrit: वैशम्पायन उवाच ततः स पुनरेवाथ मार्कण्डेयं यशस्विनम्। पप्रच्छ विनयोपेतोधर्मराजो युधिष्ठिरः॥
English: Vaishampayana said : Then Dharmaraja Yudhishthira again asked the illustrious Markandeya in all humility.
Sanskrit: नैके युगसलान्तास्त्वया दृष्टा महामुने। न चापीह समः कश्चिदायुष्मान् दृश्यते तव॥
English: "O great Rishi, you have seen many thousands of ages pass away. In this world there is none who is seen to be so long lived as you.
Sanskrit: वर्जयित्वा महात्मानं ब्रह्माणं परमेष्ठिनम्। न तेऽस्ति सदृशः कश्चिदायुषा ब्रह्मवित्तम॥
English: O foremost of Brahmanas, there is none equal to you in years except the high-souled Brahma Parameshthi.
Sanskrit: अनन्तरिक्षे लोकेऽस्मिन् देवदानववर्जिते। त्वमेव प्रलये विप्र ब्रह्माणमुपतिष्ठसे॥
English: O Brahmana, you worship Brahma at the time of the great dissolution of the universe when this world becomes devoid of sky, the celestials and the Danavas.
Sanskrit: प्रलये चापि निर्वृत्ते प्रबुद्धे च पितामहे। त्वमेकः सृज्यमानानि भूतानीह प्रपश्यसि॥ चतुर्विधानि विप्रर्षे यथावत् परमेष्ठिना। वायुभूता दिशः कृत्वा विक्षिप्यापस्ततस्ततः॥
English: When that dissolution ceases and the grandsire awakes, you alone, O great Rishi, see the Parameshti (Brahma) duly recreate the four orders of beings after having filled the cardinal points with air and placed the waters in their proper places.
Sanskrit: त्वया लोकगुरुः साक्षात् सर्वलोकपितामहः। आराधितो द्विजश्रेष्ठ तत्परेण समाधिना॥
English: O foremost of Brahmanas, you have worshipped in his own presence the great Lord and the grandsire of all creatures with your soul in great Samadhi.
Sanskrit: स्वप्रमाणमथो विप्र त्वया कृतमनेकशः। घोरेणाविश्य तपसा वेधसो निर्जितास्त्वया॥
English: O Brahmana, you have many times seen with your eyes, the primeval acts of creation. Being deeply engaged in severe asceticism, you have also excelled the celestials themselves.
Sanskrit: नारायणाङ्कप्रख्यस्त्वं साम्परायेऽतिपठ्यसे। भगवाननेकशः कृत्वा त्वया विष्णोश्च विश्वकृत्॥ कर्णिकोद्धरणं दिव्यं ब्रह्मणः कामरूपिणः। रत्नालंकारयोगाभ्यां दृग्भयां दृष्टस्त्वया पुरा॥
English: You are considered to be one who is near Narayana in the next world. In the days of yore you had many times seen the supreme creator of the world with spiritual eyes and with renunciation which first opened your pure and lotuslike heart, the only place where the multiform Vishnu of universal knowledge might be seen.
Sanskrit: तस्मात् तवान्तको मृत्युर्जरा वा देहनाशिनी। न त्वां विशति विप्रर्षे प्रसादात् परमेष्ठिनः॥
English: Hence through the favour of Parameshti, O Brahmana Rishi, neither death nor old age that causes the destruction of the body has any power over you.
Sanskrit: यदा नैवं रविर्नाग्निर्न वायुर्न च चन्द्रमाः। नैवान्तरिक्षं नैवोर्वी शेषं भवति किंचन॥
English: When neither the sun nor the moon nor fire, nor earth, nor air, nor sky, remains,
Sanskrit: तस्मिन्नेकार्णवे लोके नष्टे स्थावरजङ्गमे। नष्टे देवासुरगणे समुत्सन्नमहोरगे॥
English: When the world with its mobile and immobile creation being destroyed looks like an ocean, when the celestials, the Asuras and the great Nagas are destroyed,
Sanskrit: शयानममितात्मानं पद्मोत्पलनिकेतनम्। त्वमेकः सर्वभूतेशं ब्रह्माणमुपतिष्ठसि।॥
English: When (at such a period) the lord of creatures takes his seat on a lotus and sleeps there then you alone remain to worship him.
Sanskrit: एतत् प्रत्यक्षतः सर्वं पूर्वं वृत्तं द्विजोत्तम। तस्मादिच्छाम्यहं श्रोतुं सर्वहेत्वात्मिकां कथाम्॥ अनुभूतं हि बहुशस्त्वयैकेन द्विजोत्तमा न तेऽस्त्यविदितं किंचित् सर्वलोकेषु नित्यदा॥
English: O foremost of Brahmanas, you have seen with your own eyes all that happened before. You alone have seen many things by your senses. There is nothing in all the world that is not known to you. Therefore, I eagerly desire to hear all about things.
Sanskrit: मार्कण्डेय उवाच हन्त ते वर्णयिष्यामि नमस्कृत्वा स्वयम्भुवे। पुरुषाय पुराणाय शाश्वतायाव्ययाय च॥ अव्यक्ताय सुसूक्ष्माय निर्गुणाय गुणात्मने। स एष पुरुषव्याघ्र पीतवासा जनार्दनः॥
English: Markandeya said : Bowing down to that self-existent, primordial Being, who is eternal, undeteriorating and inconceivable who is both endued and devoid of attributes, I shall explain to you all. O foremost of men, Janardana clad in yellow garb,
Sanskrit: एष कर्ता विकर्ता च भूतात्मा भूतकृत् प्रभुः। अचिन्त्यं महदाश्चर्यं पवित्रमिति चोच्यते॥
English: Is the great mover and creator of all; he is the soul and the framer of all things. He is the lord of all; he is called great, incomprehensible, wonderful and immaculate,
Sanskrit: अनादिनिधनं भूतं विश्वमव्ययमक्षयम्। एष कर्ता न क्रियते कारणं चापि पौरुषे॥२०
English: He is without beginning and without end, he pervades all the world, he is unchangeable and undeteriorating. He is the creator of all. But himself is increate, the cause of all power.
Sanskrit: यद्येष पुरुषो वेद वेदा अपि न तं विदुः। सर्वमाश्चर्यमेवैतन्निर्वृत्तं राजसत्तम॥
English: His knowledge is greater than that of all the celestials. O foremost of kings, of kings, alter dissolution, all this wonderful creation,
Sanskrit: आदितो मनुजव्याघ्रकृत्स्नस्य जगत: क्षये। चत्वार्याहुः सहाणि वर्षाणां तत् कृतं युगम्॥ तस्य तावच्छती संध्या संध्यांशश्च तथाविधः। त्रीणि वर्षसलराणि त्रेतायुगमिहोच्यते॥
English: O best of men, again comes to life. It is said Krita Yuga constitutes four thousand years, including its morning and evening which comprise four hundred years. Treta Yuga is said to comprise three thousand years.
Sanskrit: तस्य तावच्छती संध्या संध्यांशश्च ततः परम्। तथा वर्षसहहरे द्वे द्वापरं परिमाणतः॥
English: Its morning and evening comprise three hundred years. The Yuga that follows is called Dvapara and it is said to comprise two thousand years.
Sanskrit: तस्यापि द्विशती संध्या संध्यांशश्च तथाविधः। सहरमेकं वर्षाणां ततः कलियुगं स्मृतम्॥
English: Its morning and evening comprise two hundred years. It is said that Kali Yuga constitutes one thousand years,
Sanskrit: तस्य वर्षशतं संधिः संध्यांशश्च ततः परम्। संधिसंध्यांशयोस्तुल्यं प्रमाणमुपधारय॥
English: Its morning and evening comprise one hundred years. Know that the duration of the morning and evening (of a Yuga) is the same.
Sanskrit: क्षीणे कलियुगे चैव प्रवर्तेत कृतं युगम्। एषा द्वादशसाही युगाख्या परिकीर्तिता॥
English: After Kali Yuga is over, Treta Yuga comes again; and thus it is said that all the Yugas comprise a cycle of twelve thousand years.
Sanskrit: एतत् सहरपर्यन्तमहो ब्राह्ममुदाहृतम्। विश्वं हि ब्रह्मभवने सर्वतः परिवर्तते॥ लोकानां मनुजव्याघ्र प्रलयं तं विदुर्बुधाः। अल्पावशिष्टे तु तदा युगान्ते भरतर्षभ॥ सहगन्ते नराः सर्वे प्रायशोऽनृतवादिनः। यज्ञप्रतिनिधिः पार्थ दानप्रतिनिधिस्तथा॥
English: One full thousand of such cycles would constitute a day of Brahma. O foremost of men, when this universe is withdrawn and taken back within its (original) home, (namely) Brahma himself, that disappearance of all things is called by the learned "the universal dissolution." O best of the Bharata race, at the end of the last mentioned one thousand years, men become addicted to falsehood. O son of Pritha, they then perform sacrifices and gifts by representatives.
Sanskrit: व्रतप्रतिनिधिश्चैव तस्मिन् काले प्रवर्तते। ब्राह्मणाः शूद्रकर्माणस्तथा शूद्राधनार्जकाः॥
English: Vows observed by representatives are also introduced. The Brahmanas perform acts that should be performed by the Shudras and the Shudras take to earn wealth.
Sanskrit: क्षत्रधर्मेण वाप्यत्र वर्तयन्ति गते युगे। निवृत्तयज्ञस्वाध्याया दण्डाजिनविवर्जिताः॥ ब्राह्मणाः सर्वभक्षाश्च भविष्यन्ति कलौ युगे। अजपा ब्राह्मणास्तात शूद्रा जपपरायणाः॥
English: The Kshatriyas also adopt the practices of the Brahmanas. In the Kali Yuga the Brahmanas will abstain from sacrifices and the study of the Vedas. They will give up their staff and deer skin and they will eat everything. O child, the Brahmanas will give up prayer and the Shudras will betake themselves to these.
Sanskrit: विपरीते तदा लोके पूर्वरूपं क्षयस्य तत्। बहवो म्लेच्छराजानः पृथिव्यां मनुजाधिप॥
English: O ruler of men, the course of the world then looks subverted, there are the signs of the universal dissolution. Then will rule over the earth many Mlechchha kings.
Sanskrit: मृषानुशासिनः पापा मृषावादपरायणाः। आन्ध्राः शकाः पुलिन्दाश्च यवनाश्च नराधिपाः॥
English: These sinful kings addicted to falsehood will govern their subjects on principles that are false. The Andhras, the Shakas, the Pulandas, the Yavana kings,
Sanskrit: काम्बोजा बाह्निकाः शूरास्तथाऽऽभीरा नरोत्तम। न तदा ब्राह्मणः कश्चित् स्वधर्ममुपजीवति॥
English: The Kambojas, the Balhikas and the Abhiras will then foremost of men, be endued with courage and they will possess the sovereignty of the earth. O descendant of Bharata, at the end of the Kali Yuga such becomes the state of the world. Not a single Brahmana then adheres to the duties of his order.
Sanskrit: क्षत्रियाश्चापि वैश्याश्च विकर्मस्था नराधिपा। अल्पायुषः स्वल्पबलाः स्वल्पवीर्यपराक्रमाः॥
English: O king, the Kshatriyas and the Vaishyas also follow practices contrary to those of their own orders. Men become short-lived, weak in strength, energy and prowess.
Sanskrit: अल्पसाराल्पदेहाश्च तथा सत्याल्पभाषिणः। बहुशून्या जनपदा मृगव्यालावृता दिशः॥
English: They possess little strength and diminutive bodies; and they hardly become truthful. The country becomes deserts and all directions are filled with beasts and wild animals.
Sanskrit: युगान्ते समनुप्राप्ते वृथा च ब्रह्मवादिनः। भोवादिनस्तथा शूद्रा ब्राह्मणाश्चार्यवादिनः॥
English: When the end of the Yuga comes, the uttering of the Vedas become futile. The Shudras address (others) saying “Bho;" while the Brahinanas address (others) saying "Noble Sir."
Sanskrit: युगान्ते मनुजव्याघ्र भवन्ति बहुजन्तवः। न तथा घ्राणयुक्ताश्च सर्वगन्धा विशाम्पते॥
English: O foremost of men, at the end of the Yuga animals enormously increase. O rulers of men, perfumes even do not become agreeable to our sense of smell.
Sanskrit: रसाश्च मनुजव्याघ्र न तथा स्वादुयोगिनः। बहुप्रजा ह्रस्वदेहाः शीलाचारविवर्जिताः। मुखे भगाः स्त्रियो राजन् भविष्यन्ति युगक्षये॥
English: O foremost of men, the tastes of things do not become so agreeable to our sense of taste as at other times. Women give birth to numerous children who become of diminutive body, destitute of good conduct and good manners. O king at the end of the Yuga women's mouth serves the purpose of intercourse.
Sanskrit: अट्टशूला जनपदाः शिवशूलाश्चतुष्पथाः। केशशूलाः स्त्रियो राजन् भविष्यन्ति युगक्षये॥
English: O king, at the end of the Yuga, famine ravages the habitations of men and the highways are infested by women of ill fame. O king, all women become hostile to their husbands and destitute of all modesty.
Sanskrit: अल्पक्षीरास्तथा गावो भविष्यन्ति जनाधिप। अल्पपुष्पफलाचापि पादपा बहुवायसाः॥
English: O ruler of men, cows yield little milk; trees are crowded with swarms of crows; they do not produce any fruits and flowers.
Sanskrit: ब्रह्मवध्यानुलिप्तानां तथा मिथ्याभिशंसिनाम्। नृपाणां पृथिवीपाल प्रतिगृहणन्ति वै द्विजाः॥
English: O ruler of earth, the Brahmanas, polluted with the sin of killing the twice-born, accept gifts from kings who are addicted to falsehood.
Sanskrit: लोभमोहपरीताच मिथ्याधर्मध्वजावृताः। भिक्षार्थं पृथिवीपाल चयूर्यन्ते द्विजैर्दिशः॥
English: Filled with covetousness and ignorance; and bearing the outward symbols of religion, the Brahınanas afflicting the people of the earth rove about for alms.
Sanskrit: करभारभयाद् भीता गृहस्थाः परिमोषकाः। मुनिच्छद्माकृतिच्छन्ना वाणिज्यमुपजीविनः॥ मिथ्या च नखरोमाणिधारयन्ति तदा द्विजाः। अर्थलोभान्नरव्याघ्र तथा च ब्रह्मचारिणः॥
English: Men, leading domestic life, being afraid of the weight of taxation, become deceivers; while Brahmanas assuming the disguise of ascetics earn wealth by trade. O foremost of men, many Brahmanas become from their avarice of wealth religious mendicants of the Brahmacharya order.
Sanskrit: आश्रमेषु वृथाचाराः पानपा गुरुतल्पगाः। इह लौकिकमीहन्ते मांसशोणितवर्धनम्॥
English: O king, men at such a time behave contrary to the mode of life to which they belong; they become addicted to intoxicating drinks, they become capable of violating even the bed of their preceptors. They are deluded with the desires of this world and they pursue things that only give pleasure ministering to flesh and blood.
Sanskrit: बहुपाषण्डसंकीर्णाः परान्नगुणवादिनः। आश्रमा मनुजव्याघ्र भविष्यन्ति युगक्षये॥
English: O foremost of men, at the end of the Yuga the hermitage of ascetics becomes crowded with sinful and insolent wretches who always praise the life of dependence.
Sanskrit: यथर्तुवर्षी भगवान् न तथा पाकशासनः। न चापि सर्वबीजानि सम्यग् रोहन्ति भारत॥
English: O descendant of Bharata, the illustrious chastiser of Paka (Indra) never showers rain according to the season. The seeds that are scattered on earth never spring forth.
Sanskrit: हिंसाभिरामश्च जनस्तथा सम्पद्यतेऽशुचिः। अधर्मफलमत्यर्थं तदा भवति चानघा॥
English: Unholy both in thought and deed, men take pleasure in envy and malice. O sinless one, the earth becomes full of sin and immorality.
Sanskrit: तदा च पृथिवीपाल यो भवेद्धर्मसंयुतः। अल्पायुः स हि मन्तव्यो न हिधर्मोऽस्ति कश्चन।।५२।
English: O ruler of earth, he who becomes virtuous in such periods does not at all live long. The earth becomes devoid of virtue in every shape.
Sanskrit: भूयिष्ठं कूटमानैश्च पण्यं विक्रीणते जनाः। वणिजश्च नरव्याघ्र बहुमाया भवन्त्युत॥
English: O foremost of men, traders, becoming full of deceit, sell their goods with false weights and measures.
Sanskrit: धर्मिष्ठाः परिहीयन्ते पापीयान् वर्धते जनः। धर्मस्य बलहानिः स्यादधर्मश्च बली तथा॥
English: The virtuous men do not prosper, only the sinful men then exceedingly prosper. Virtue then loses her strength and sin becomes all powerful.
Sanskrit: अल्पायुषो दरिद्राश्चधर्मिष्ठा मानवास्तथा। दीर्घायुषः समृद्धाश्च विधर्माणो युगक्षये॥
English: Those that are devoted to virtue then become poor and short-lived. At the end of the Yuga those that are sinful become wealthy and longlived.
Sanskrit: नागराणां विहारेषु विधर्माणो युगक्षये। अधर्मिष्ठरुपायैश्च प्रजा व्यवहरन्त्युत॥
English: At the end of the Yuga people behave sinfully even in places of public entertainment, in cities and towns. Men then always seek the accomplishment of their ends by means that are sinful.
Sanskrit: संचयेन तथाल्पेन भवन्त्याढ्यमदान्विताः। धनं विश्वासतो न्यस्तं मिथो भूयिष्ठशो नराः॥ हर्तु व्यवसिता राजन् पापाचारसमन्विताः। नैतदस्तीति मनुजा वर्तन्ते निरपत्रपाः॥
English: Having earned fortunes that are really small, men become intoxicated with the pride of wealth. O king, many men at the end of Yuga try to rob the wealth that has been secretly deposited with them by others out of trust. Full of sinful practices, they shamelessly declare, "they have nothing in deposit.”
Sanskrit: पुरुषादानि सत्त्वानि पक्षिणोऽथ मृगास्तथा। नगराणां विहारेषु चैत्येष्वपि च शेरते॥
English: Beast of prey and other animals and birds are seen to lie down in places of public entertainments, in cities and towns, as well as in sacred temples.
Sanskrit: सप्तवर्षाष्टवर्षाश्च स्त्रियो गर्भधरा नृप। दशद्वादशवर्षाणां पुंसां पुत्रः प्रजायते॥
English: O king, girls of seven and eight years of age, give birth to children and boys of ten or twelve years beget offspring.
Sanskrit: भवन्ति षोडशे वर्षे नराः पलितिनस्तथा। आयुःक्षयो मनुष्याणां क्षिप्रमेव प्रपद्यते॥
English: In their sixteenth year men are over-taken by decripitude. And a man's life is soon run out.
Sanskrit: क्षीणायुषो महाराज तरुणो वृद्धशीलिनः। तरुणानां च यच्छील तद् वृद्धेषु प्रजायते॥
English: O great king, when men become so shortlived, mere youths act like old men, while all that is seen in the youths is seen in old men.
Sanskrit: विपरीतास्तदा नार्यो वञ्चयित्वार्हतः पतीन्। व्युच्चरन्त्यपि दुःशीला दासैः पशुभिरेव च॥
English: Women, prone to impropriety of conduct and distinguished by bad manners, deceive even the best of husbands and forget themselves with servants and slaves, even with animals,
Sanskrit: वीरपल्यस्तथा नार्यः संश्रयन्ति नरान् नृप। भर्तारमपि जीवन्तमन्यान् व्यभिचरन्त्युत॥
English: O king, even women who are the wives of good men forget themselves with others even at the life time of their husbands.
Sanskrit: तस्मिन् युगसलरान्ते सम्प्राप्ते चायुषः क्षये। अनावृष्टिर्महाराज जायते बहुवार्षिकी॥
English: O king, at the end of those thousands of years and when men become so short-lived, a draught takes place which extends for many years.
Sanskrit: ततस्तान्यल्पसारणि सत्त्वानि क्षुधितानि वै। प्रलयं यान्ति भूयिष्ठं पृथिव्यां पृथिवीपते॥
English: O lord of earth, then men and (other) creatures, possessing but little strength and vitality, die of starvation by thousands.
Sanskrit: ततो दिनकरैर्दीप्तैः सप्तभिर्मनुजाधिप। पीयते सलिलं सर्वं समुद्रेषु सरित्सु च॥
English: O ruler of men, seven blazing suns then appear in the sky and drink up all the waters of the earth that are in the rivers and in the scas.
Sanskrit: यच्च काष्ठं तृणं चापि शुष्कं चार्दै च भारत। सर्वं तद् भस्मसाद् भूतं दृश्यते भरतर्षभ॥
English: O descendant of Bharata, O best of the Bharata race, then everything of the nature of wood and grass, whether dry or wet, is burnt down and reduced to ashes.
Sanskrit: ततः संवर्तको वह्निर्वायुना सह भारत। लोकमाविशते पूर्वमादित्यैरुपशोषितम्॥
English: O descendant of Bharata, then the fire (called) Samvartaka helped by the wind appears on earth which has been already burnt (to ashes) by the seven suns.