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Chapter 12.224 - Verse 1

Sanskrit Text

आद्यन्तं सर्वभूतानां श्रोतुमिच्छामि कौरव ध्यानं कर्म कालं तथैवायुर्युगे युगे

English Translation

I wish, O Kuru hero, to know what origin and what the end is of all creatures; what the nature of their meditation is and what their acts; what the divisions of time are, and what is the spare of human existence in the respective cycles.

Padaccheda (Word Analysis)

आदि + अन्त | सर्व + भूत | श्रोतुम् | इच्छामि | कौरव
ध्यानं | कर्म | च | कालं | च | तथा + एव + आयुस् | युगे | युगे