Text 45] Maharaja Pariksit Cursed by a Brahmana Boy 977

TEXT 45

aS: osfaetad TU
TPT ATS:
Tat ata Tada: Bell

tadarya-dharmah praviliyate nrnam
varnasramacara-yutas trayi-mayah

tato’rtha-kamabhinivesitatmanam
Sunam kapinam iva varna-sankarah

tada—at that time; arya—progressive civilization; dharmah—engagement;
praviliyate—is systematically vanquished; nrnam—of humankind; varna—
caste; asrama—orders of society; acara-yutah—composed in a good manner;
trayi-mayah—in terms of the Vedic injunction; tatah—thereafter; artha—
economic development; kama-abhinivesita—fully absorbed in sense gratifi-
cation; atmanam—of men; sunam—like dogs; kapinam—like monkeys;
iva—thus; varna-sankarah —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 gratifica-
tion, 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 mon-
keys. 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
Aryans. The Aryans are progressive in Vedic civilization. The Vedic civili-
