Shloka 29

Devanagari script

धर्म च मत्तो गृह्नीष्व सात्वतं नाम नामत: । तेन सृष्टं कृतयुगं स्थापयस्व यथाविधि,“उत्तम व्रतका पालन करनेवाले पुत्र! मैं तुम्हारा कल्याण करूँगा और तुम्हारे भीतर तेज एवं बलकी वृद्धि करता रहूँगा। तुम मुझसे इस सात्वत नामक धर्मको ग्रहण करो और उसके द्वारा विधिपूर्वक सत्ययुगकी सृष्टि करके उसकी स्थापना करो”

Transliteration

dharmaṃ ca matto gṛhṇīṣva sātvatam nāma nāmataḥ | tena sṛṣṭaṃ kṛtayugaṃ sthāpayasva yathāvidhi ||

Translation

Vaiśampāyana said: “Receive from me this Dharma known by the name ‘Sātvata’. By it, bring forth the Kṛta (Satya) Yuga as ordained, and establish it in due form.”

Word by Word

धर्मम्dharma (religious duty/law)

चand

मत्तःfrom me

गृह्णीष्वtake; accept

सात्वतम्Sātvata (pertaining to the Sātvatas); sātvata-named

नामname

नामतःby name; in name

तेनby that; with that

सृष्टम्created; produced

कृतयुगम्Kṛta-yuga (the golden age)

स्थापयस्वestablish; set up

यथाविधिaccording to rule; duly

Speaker

वैशम्पायन उवाच

Characters & Entities

Vaiśampāyana

Sātvata-dharma

Kṛta-yuga (Satya-yuga)

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

War Context

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Geographic Context

Cross References

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

Dharma is presented as a transmissible, named discipline (‘Sātvata’) whose proper acceptance and practice enables the restoration and firm establishment of the highest moral age, the Kṛta/Satya Yuga—i.e., social and cosmic order must be founded on rightly received and correctly enacted dharma.

What is happening in the narrative?

The narrator Vaiśampāyana reports an instruction in which a teacher/authority figure directs the addressee to accept a specific dharma called ‘Sātvata’ and, by following it according to prescribed rules, to ‘create’ and ‘establish’ the Kṛta (Satya) Yuga—framing ethical governance as the means to renew an age of truth.