🪷 ŚB 6.4.9

Sanskrit, transliteration, word meanings, and translation for steady Bhāgavata reading.

Sanskrit

अन्नं चराणामचरा ह्यपद: पादचारिणाम् । अहस्ता हस्तयुक्तानां द्विपदां च चतुष्पद: ॥ ९ ॥

Transliteration

annaṁ carāṇām acarā hy apadaḥ pāda-cāriṇām ahastā hasta-yuktānāṁ dvi-padāṁ ca catuṣ-padaḥ
Synonyms
annam — food; carāṇām — of those that move on wings; acarāḥ — the nonmoving (fruits and flowers); hi — indeed; apadaḥ — the living entities without legs, like the grass; pāda-cāriṇām — of the animals who move on legs, like the cows and buffalo; ahastāḥ — animals without hands; hasta-yuktānām — of the animals with hands, like the tigers; dvi-padām — of human beings, who have two legs; ca — and; catuḥ-padaḥ — the four-legged animals like the deer.

Translation

By nature’s arrangement, fruits and flowers are considered the food of insects and birds; grass and other legless living entities are meant to be the food of four-legged animals like cows and buffalo; animals that cannot use their front legs as hands are meant to be the food of animals like tigers, which have claws; and four-legged animals like deer and goats, as well as food grains, are meant to be the food of human beings.

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