कर्मणाकृतिभिर्वाचा लिङ्गैर्वर्णाश्रमादिभि: । न विदन्ति जना यं वै सोऽसाविति न वेति च ॥ १४ ॥
karmanakrtibhir vaca lingair varnasramadibhih na vidanti jana yam vai so ’sav iti na veti ca
- karmana
- by activities
- akrtibhih
- by bodily features
- vaca
- by words
- lingaih
- by symptoms
- varna-asrama
- pertaining to the particular material and spiritual divisions of varna and asrama
- adibhih
- and by other symptoms
- na vidanti
- could not understand
- janah
- people in general
- yam
- whom
- vai
- indeed
- sah
- whether that person
- asau
- was the same person
- iti
- thus
- na
- not
- va
- or
- iti
- thus
- ca
- also.
Neither by that saintly person’s activities, by his bodily features, by his words nor by the symptoms of his varnasrama status could people understand whether he was the same person they had known.