तस्मिन् लुब्धा दुराचारा निर्दया: शुष्कवैरिण: । दुर्भगा भूरितर्षाश्च शूद्रदासोत्तरा: प्रजा: ॥ २५ ॥
tasmin lubdhā durācārā nirdayāḥ śuṣka-vairiṇaḥ durbhagā bhūri-tarṣāś ca śūdra-dāsottarāḥ prajāḥ
- tasmin
- in that age
- lubdhāḥ
- greedy
- durācārāḥ
- ill-behaved
- nirdayāḥ
- merciless
- śuṣka-vairiṇaḥ
- prone to useless quarrel
- durbhagāḥ
- unfortunate
- bhūri-tarṣāḥ
- obsessed by many kinds of hankering
- ca
- and
- śūdra-dāsa-uttarāḥ
- predominantly low-class laborers and barbarians
- prajāḥ
- the people
In the Kali age people tend to be greedy, ill-behaved and merciless, and they fight one another without good reason. Unfortunate and obsessed with material desires, the people of Kali-yuga are almost all śūdras and barbarians.