मार्गा बभूवु: सन्दिग्धस्तृणैश्छन्ना ह्यसंस्कृता: । नाभ्यस्यमाना: श्रुतयो द्विजै: कालेन चाहता: ॥ १६ ॥
mārgā babhūvuḥ sandigdhās tṛṇaiś channā hy asaṁskṛtāḥ nābhyasyamānāḥ śrutayo dvijaiḥ kālena cāhatāḥ
- mārgāḥ
- the roads
- babhūvuḥ
- became
- sandigdhāḥ
- obscured
- tṛṇaiḥ
- by grass
- channāḥ
- covered over
- hi
- indeed
- asaṁskṛtāḥ
- not cleansed
- na abhyasyamānāḥ
- not being studied
- śrutayaḥ
- the scriptures
- dvijaiḥ
- by the brāhmaṇas
- kālena
- by the effects of time
- ca
- and
- āhatāḥ
- corrupted
During the rainy season the roads, not being cleansed, became covered with grass and debris and were thus difficult to make out. These roads were like religious scriptures that brāhmaṇas no longer study and that thus become corrupted and covered over with the passage of time.