कलौ तु धर्मपादानां तुर्यांशोऽधर्महेतुभि: । एधमानै: क्षीयमाणो ह्यन्ते सोऽपि विनङ्क्ष्यति ॥ २४ ॥
kalau tu dharma-pādānāṁ turyāṁśo ’dharma-hetubhiḥ edhamānaiḥ kṣīyamāṇo hy ante so ’pi vinaṅkṣyati
- kalau
- in the Age of Kali
- tu
- and
- dharma-pādānām
- of the legs of religion
- turya-aṁśaḥ
- one fourth
- adharma
- of irreligion
- hetubhiḥ
- by the principles
- edhamānaiḥ
- which are increasing
- kṣīyamāṇaḥ
- decreasing
- hi
- indeed
- ante
- in the end
- saḥ
- that one quarter
- api
- also
- vinaṅkṣyati
- will be destroyed
In the Age of Kali only one fourth of the religious principles remains. That last remnant will continuously be decreased by the ever-increasing principles of irreligion and will finally be destroyed.