धर्मं प्रवदतस्तस्य स काल: प्रत्युपस्थित: । यो योगिनश्छन्दमृत्योर्वाञ्छितस्तूत्तरायण: ॥ २९ ॥
dharmam pravadatas tasya sa kalah pratyupasthitah yo yoginas chanda-mrtyor vanchitas tuttarayanah
- dharmam
- occupational duties
- pravadatah
- while describing
- tasya
- his
- sah
- that
- kalah
- time
- pratyupasthitah
- exactly appeared
- yah
- that is
- yoginah
- for the mystics
- chanda-mrtyoh
- of one who dies according to one’s own selection of time
- vanchitah
- is desired by
- tu
- but
- uttarayanah
- the period when the sun runs on the northern horizon.
While Bhismadeva was describing occupational duties, the sun’s course ran into the northern hemisphere. This period is desired by mystics who die at their will.