bhAgavatapurANa - translation question - what does zUla mean?

[Dominic Goodall]

The "sivato.si.nii commentary on Li"ngapuraa.na 1.40:25--26 quotes a  
commentator on the Mahaabhaarata (which is perhaps where this topos  
first occurs?) who explains the code :

.... etad evokta.m bhaaratavyaakhyaat.rbhi.h---

a.t.tam anna.m "sivo vedo braahma.naa"s ca catu.spathaa.h|
ke"so bhaga.m samaakhyaata.m "suula.m tadvikriya.m vidu.h|| iti|


Dominic Goodall
Pondicherry Centre,
Ecole française d'Extrême-Orient ("French School of Asian Studies"),



On 25 Jun 2007, at 08:19, McComas Taylor wrote:

> Dear colleagues
>
> The description of the Kali yuga in BhP (0.1.36, paNDita- 
> pustakAlaya ed.) states that:
>
> aTTazUlA janapadAH zivazUlA dvijAtayaH . kAminyaH kezazUlinyaH  
> sambhavanti kalAviha
>
> Tagare's translation says 'In this Kali age, the country will be  
> full of people who sell food, BrAhmaNas, selling the Vedas and  
> women living by prostitution' (lxxv).
>
> Can anyone help me get 'selling food' out of aTTazUla, 'selling  
> Vedas' out of zivazUla and 'prostitution/selling hair' out of  
> kezazUla?
>
> thanks in advance
>
> McComas
>
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