धर्मश्चतुष्पान्मनुजान् कृते समनुवर्तते । स एवान्येष्वधर्मेण व्येति पादेन वर्धता ॥ २१ ॥
dharmas catus-pan manujan krte samanuvartate sa evanyesv adharmena vyeti padena vardhata
- dharmah
- religion
- catuh-pat
- complete four dimensions
- manujan
- mankind
- krte
- in the Satya-yuga
- samanuvartate
- properly maintained
- sah
- that
- eva
- certainly
- anyesu
- in other
- adharmena
- by the influence of irreligion
- vyeti
- declined
- padena
- by one part
- vardhata
- gradually increasing proportionately.
O Vidura, in the Satya millennium mankind properly and completely maintained the principles of religion, but in other millenniums religion gradually decreased by one part as irreligion was proportionately admitted.