एवं परम्पराप्राप्तमिमं राजर्षयो विदुः | स कालेनेह महता योगो नष्टः परन्तप ||४-२||
evaṃ paramparāprāptamimaṃ rājarṣayo viduḥ . sa kāleneha mahatā yogo naṣṭaḥ parantapa ||4-2||
- evam
- thus
- paramparā
- by disciplic succession
- prāptam
- received
- imam
- this science
- rāja-ṛṣayaḥ
- the saintly kings
- viduḥ
- understood
- saḥ
- that knowledge
- kālena
- in the course of time
- iha
- in this world
- mahatā
- great
- yogaḥ
- the science of one’s relationship with the Supreme
- naṣṭaḥ
- scattered
- param-tapa
- O Arjuna, subduer of the enemies
- saḥ
- the same
This supreme science was thus received through the chain of disciplic succession, and the saintly kings understood it in that way. But in course of time the succession was broken, and therefore the science as it is appears to be lost.