Shloka 38
कलियुग-प्रवृत्तिः, सप्तर्षि-गणना, धरणीगीताः, च वंश-समाप्तिः
Kali-yuga onset, Saptarṣi reckoning, Dharaṇī-gītā, and closure of the dynastic account
कृते युग इहागत्य क्षत्रप्रावर्तकौ हि तौ भविष्यतो मनोर् वंशबीजभूतौ व्यवस्थितौ
kṛte yuga ihāgatya kṣatraprāvartakau hi tau bhaviṣyato manor vaṃśabījabhūtau vyavasthitau
En el Yuga Kṛta vinieron aquí, y en verdad esos dos se volvieron los iniciadores del orden kṣatriya, firmemente establecidos como semilla del linaje del futuro Manu.
Sage Parāśara (narrating to Maitreya)
FAQs
It marks certain figures as foundational ancestors whose presence initiates and guarantees the continuity of a royal line within the Manvantara framework.
He frames it as a dharmic inauguration: “those two” arrive in the Kṛta Yuga specifically as pravartakas—initiators of the royal/Kshatriya order—linking kingship to cosmic timing and lineage.
Even when Vishnu is not named in the verse, the Purana’s structure treats Yuga order, Manu succession, and dynastic continuity as operating under Vishnu’s supreme governance of time (kāla) and dharma.