न यदा रथमास्थाय जैत्रं मणिगणार्पितम् । विस्फूर्जच्चण्डकोदण्डो रथेन त्रासयन्नघान् ॥ ५२ ॥ स्वसैन्यचरणक्षुण्णं वेपयन्मण्डलं भुव: । विकर्षन् बृहतीं सेनां पर्यटस्यंशुमानिव ॥ ५३ ॥ तदैव सेतव: सर्वे वर्णाश्रमनिबन्धना: । भगवद्रचिता राजन् भिद्येरन् बत दस्युभि: ॥ ५४ ॥
na yada ratham asthaya jaitram mani-ganarpitam visphurjac-canda-kodando rathena trasayann aghan sva-sainya-carana-ksunnam vepayan mandalam bhuvah vikarsan brhatim senam paryatasy amsuman iva tadaiva setavah sarve varnasrama-nibandhanah bhagavad-racita rajan bhidyeran bata dasyubhih
- na
- not
- yada
- when
- ratham
- the chariot
- asthaya
- having mounted
- jaitram
- victorious
- mani
- of jewels
- gana
- with clusters
- arpitam
- bedecked
- visphurjat
- twanging
- canda
- a fearful sound just to punish the criminals
- kodandah
- bow
- rathena
- by the presence of such a chariot
- trasayan
- threatening
- aghan
- all the culprits
- sva-sainya
- of your soldiers
- carana
- by the feet
- ksunnam
- trampled
- vepayan
- causing to tremble
- mandalam
- the globe
- bhuvah
- of the earth
- vikarsan
- leading
- brhatim
- huge
- senam
- army
- paryatasi
- you roam about
- amsuman
- the brilliant sun
- iva
- like
- tada
- then
- eva
- certainly
- setavah
- religious codes
- sarve
- all
- varna
- of varnas
- asrama
- of asramas
- nibandhanah
- obligations
- bhagavat
- by the Lord
- racitah
- created
- rajan
- O King
- bhidyeran
- they would be broken
- bata
- alas
- dasyubhih
- by rogues
If you did not mount your victorious jeweled chariot, whose mere presence threatens culprits, if you did not produce fierce sounds by the twanging of your bow, and if you did not roam about the world like the brilliant sun, leading a huge army whose trampling feet cause the globe of the earth to tremble, then all the moral laws governing the varnas and asramas created by the Lord Himself would be broken by the rogues and rascals.