Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 12.3.35
పణయిష్యన్తి వై క్షుద్రా: కిరాటా: కూటకారిణ: ।
అనాపద్యపి మంస్యన్తే వార్తాం సాధు జుగుప్సితామ్ ॥ ౩౫ ॥
paṇayiṣyanti vai kṣudrāḥ
[panayishyanti vai kshudraah]
kirāṭāḥ kūṭa-kāriṇaḥ
[kiraataah koota-kaarinah]
anāpady api maṁsyante
[anaapady api mamsyante]
vārtāṁ sādhu jugupsitām
[vaartaam saadhu jugupsitaam]
Word-for-word
paṇayiṣyanti
—
will engage in commerce
vai
—
indeed
kṣudrāḥ
—
petty
kirāṭāḥ
—
the merchants
kūṭa-kāriṇaḥ
—
indulging in cheating
anāpadi
—
when there is no emergency
api
—
even
maṁsyante
—
people will consider
vārtām
—
an occupation
sādhu
—
good
jugupsitām
—
which is actually contemptible.
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
paṇayiṣyanti vai kṣudrāḥ
paṇayiṣyanti
will engage in commerce
vai
indeed
kṣudrāḥ
petty
kirāṭāḥ kūṭa-kāriṇaḥ
kirāṭāḥ
the merchants
kūṭa-kāriṇaḥ
indulging in cheating
anāpady api maṁsyante
anāpadi
when there is no emergency
api
even
maṁsyante
people will consider
vārtāṁ sādhu jugupsitām
vārtām
an occupation
sādhu
good
jugupsitām
which is actually contemptible.
Businessmen will engage in petty commerce and earn their money by cheating. Even when there is no emergency, people will consider any degraded occupation quite acceptable.
Purport
Although other occupations are available, people do not hesitate to work in coal mines, slaughterhouses, steel mills, deserts, floating oil rigs, submarines and other equally abominable situations. As also mentioned here, businessmen will consider cheating and lying to be a perfectly respectable way to do business. These are all symptoms of the Age of Kali.
— A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda
Gauḍīya Ācāryas
Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura
Gauḍīya
Translation
Petty merchants will earn their money by cheating. Even when there is no emergency, all varṇas will consider any degraded occupation as good.
Merchants (kirāṭāḥ), after cheating by use of adharma (kūta-kāriṇaḥ), will carry out transactions. All varṇas will consider a despised occupation as good, even when there is no emergency.
My note
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