Shloka 14
Adhyātma-krama: Indriya–Manas–Buddhi–Ātman Hierarchy and Citta-Prasāda (आध्यात्मक्रमः)
त्रेतादौ केवला वेदा यज्ञा वर्णाश्रमास्तथा । संरोधादायुषस्त्वेते व्यस्यन्ते द्वापरे युगे
tretādau kevalā vedā yajñā varṇāśramās tathā | saṃrodhād āyuṣas tv ete vyasyante dvāpare yuge ||
ヴィヤーサは言った。「トレーターの初めには、ヴェーダはただ一つ、未分のままに存し、供犠の儀礼も、ヴァルナとアーシュラマの制度もまた同様であった。だが人の寿命が抑えられ短くなるにつれ、これらはドヴァーパラの世において整えられ、分かち定められる。」
व्यास उवाच
Educational Q&A
As human capacities—especially lifespan—diminish across the ages, the preservation and practice of dharma adapts: what was once held as a single, integral Vedic and ritual order becomes systematized and divided in the Dvāpara-yuga to remain accessible and workable.
Vyāsa is explaining a yuga-based account of religious and social organization: in early ages the Vedas, sacrifices, and the varṇa–āśrama framework are presented as ‘whole’ or unified, but later—specifically in Dvāpara—these are arranged into divisions in response to the shortening of human life.