कृतादिषु प्रजा राजन् कलाविच्छन्ति सम्भवम् । कलौ खलु भविष्यन्ति नारायणपरायणा: । क्वचित् क्वचिन्महाराज द्रविडेषु च भूरिश: ॥ ३८ ॥ ताम्रपर्णी नदी यत्र कृतमाला पयस्विनी । कावेरी च महापुण्या प्रतीची च महानदी ॥ ३९ ॥ ये पिबन्ति जलं तासां मनुजा मनुजेश्वर । प्रायो भक्ता भगवति वासुदेवेऽमलाशया: ॥ ४० ॥
kṛtādiṣu prajā rājan kalāv icchanti sambhavam kalau khalu bhaviṣyanti nārāyaṇa-parāyaṇāḥ kvacit kvacin mahā-rāja draviḍeṣu ca bhūriśaḥ tāmraparṇī nadī yatra kṛtamālā payasvinī kāverī ca mahā-puṇyā pratīcī ca mahā-nadī ye pibanti jalaṁ tāsāṁ manujā manujeśvara prāyo bhaktā bhagavati vāsudeve ’malāśayāḥ
- kṛta-ādiṣu
- of Satya and the other earlier ages
- prajāḥ
- the inhabitants
- rājan
- O King
- kalau
- in Kali-yuga
- icchanti
- they want
- sambhavam
- birth
- kalau
- in Kali
- khalu
- certainly
- bhaviṣyanti
- there will be
- nārāyaṇa-parāyaṇāḥ
- devotees who dedicate their lives to the service of Lord Nārāyaṇa
- kvacit kvacit
- here and there
- mahā-rāja
- O great monarch
- draviḍeṣu
- in the provinces of South India
- ca
- but
- bhūriśaḥ
- especially plentifully
- tāmraparṇī
- named Tāmraparṇī
- nadī
- the river
- yatra
- where
- kṛtamālā
- Kṛtamālā
- payasvinī
- Payasvinī
- kāverī
- Kāverī
- ca
- and
- mahā-puṇyā
- extremely pious
- pratīcī
- named Pratīcī
- ca
- and
- mahā-nadī
- the Mahānadī
- ye
- those who
- pibanti
- drink
- jalam
- the water
- tāsām
- of these
- manujāḥ
- humans
- manuja-īśvara
- O lord of men (Nimi)
- prāyaḥ
- for the most part
- bhaktāḥ
- devotees
- bhagavati
- of the Personality of Godhead
- vāsudeve
- Lord Vāsudeva
- amala-āśayāḥ
- having spotless hearts
My dear King, the inhabitants of Satya-yuga and other ages eagerly desire to take birth in this Age of Kali, since in this age there will be many devotees of the Supreme Lord, Nārāyaṇa. These devotees will appear in various places but will be especially numerous in South India. O master of men, in the Age of Kali those persons who drink the waters of the holy rivers of Draviḍa-deśa, such as the Tāmraparṇī, Krtamālā, Payasvinī, the extremely pious Kāverī and the Pratīcī Mahānadī, will almost all be purehearted devotees of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Vāsudeva.