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Mahārāja Parīkṣit Cursed by a Brāhmaṇa Boy
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TEXT 45
तदाऽऽर्यधर्मः प्रविलीयते नृणां वर्णाश्रयाचारयुतस्वयोमयः ततोऽर्थकायाभिनिवेशितात्मनां शुनां कपीनामिव वर्णसंकरः ॥४५॥
tadārya-dharmaḥ pravilīyate nṛṇām varṇāśramācāra-yutas trayī-mayaḥ tato'rtha-kāmābhiniveśitātmanām śunām kapīnām iva varṇa-saṅkaraḥ
tadā —at that time;  ārya —progressive civilization;  dharmaḥ —engagement;  pravilīyate —is systematically vanquished;  nṛṇām —of humankind;  varṇa —caste;  āśrama —orders of society;  ācāra-yutaḥ —composed in a good manner;  trayī-mayaḥ —in terms of the Vedic injunction;  tataḥ —thereafter;  artha —economic development;  kāma-abhiniveśita —fully absorbed in sense gratification;  ātmanām —of men;  śunām —like dogs;  kapīnām —like monkeys;  iva —thus;  varṇa-saṅkaraḥ —unwanted population.
TRANSLATION
At that time the people in general will fall systematically from the path of a progressive civilization in respect to the qualitative engagements of the castes and the orders of society and the Vedic injunctions. Thus they will be more attracted to economic development for sense gratification, and as a result there will be an unwanted population on the level of dogs and monkeys.
PURPORT
It is foretold herein that in the absence of a monarchical regime, the general mass of people will be an unwanted population like dogs and monkeys. As the monkeys are too sexually inclined and dogs are shameless in sexual intercourse, the general mass of population born of illegitimate connection will systematically go astray from the Vedic way of good manners and qualitative engagements in the castes and orders of life.
The Vedic way of life is the progressive march of the civilization of the Āryans. The Āryans are progressive in Vedic civilization. The Vedic civili-