न रक्षिष्यन्ति मनुजा: स्थविरौ पितरावपि । पुत्रान् भार्यां च कुलजां क्षुद्रा: शिश्नोदरंभरा: ॥ ४२ ॥
na rakṣiṣyanti manujāḥ sthavirau pitarāv api putrān bhāryāṁ ca kula-jāṁ kṣudrāḥ śiśnodaraṁ-bharāḥ
- na rakṣiṣyanti
- they will not protect
- manujāḥ
- men
- sthavirau
- elderly
- pitarau
- parents
- api
- even
- putrān
- children
- bhāryām
- wife
- ca
- also
- kula-jām
- born of a proper family
- kṣudrāḥ
- petty
- śiśna-udaram
- their genitals and belly
- bharāḥ
- simply maintaining
Men will no longer protect their elderly parents, their children or their respectable wives. Thoroughly degraded, they will care only to satisfy their own bellies and genitals.