Chapter 13
कर्मणाकृतिभिर्वाचा लिङ्गैर्वर्णाश्रमादिभि: । न विदन्ति जना यं वै सोऽसाविति न वेति च ॥ १४ ॥
Transliteration
karmaṇākṛtibhir vācā liṅgair varṇāśramādibhiḥ na vidanti janā yaṁ vai so ’sāv iti na veti ca
Synonyms (Word-for-Word)
karmaṇā — by activities; ākṛtibhiḥ — by bodily features; vācā — by words; liṅgaiḥ — by symptoms; varṇa-āśrama — pertaining to the particular material and spiritual divisions of varṇa and āśrama; ādibhiḥ — and by other symptoms; na vidanti — could not understand; janāḥ — people in general; yam — whom; vai — indeed; saḥ — whether that person; asau — was the same person; iti — thus; na — not; vā — or; iti — thus; ca — also.
Translation
“Neither by that saintly person’s activities, by his bodily features, by his words nor by the symptoms of his varṇāśrama status could people understand whether he was the same person they had known.”