Shloka 56

Devanagari script

इतः कृतयुगे$तीते विपर्यासं गतेडपि च । वैवस्वते<न्तरे विप्रा: प्राप्ते त्रेतायुगे पुन:

Transliteration

itaḥ kṛtayuge'tīte viparyāsaṃ gate'pi ca | vaivasvate'ntare viprāḥ prāpte tretāyuge punaḥ ||

Translation

ព្រះទេវតាមានព្រះបន្ទូលថា៖ «ក្រោយពីក្រឹតយុគបានកន្លងផុត ហើយសូម្បីតែពេលដែលការប្រែប្រួលបញ្ច្រាសនៃរបៀបដើមបានកើតឡើង ក្នុងវៃវស្វតមន្វន្តរា ពេលត្រេតាយុគមកដល់ម្ដងទៀត ព្រាហ្មណ៍ទាំងឡាយក៏បានលេចមកវិញ (ដើម្បីប្រព្រឹត្តតាមយុគនោះ)»។

Word by Word

इतःfrom here; thereafter

कृतयुगेin the Kṛta-yuga

अतीतेhaving passed; when (it) had passed

विपर्यासम्reversal; disorder; perversion

गतेwhen (it) had gone/entered

अपिalso; even

चand

वैवस्वतेin (the period) of Vaivasvata (Manu)

अन्तरेin the interval; in the manvantara

विप्राःBrahmins; sages

प्राप्तेwhen (it) had arrived; upon the advent (of)

त्रेतायुगेin the Tretā-yuga

पुनःagain; once more

Speaker

देव उवाच

Characters & Entities

Deva (speaker)

Vaivasvata (Manu)

Viprāḥ (brāhmaṇas/sages)

Kṛta Yuga

Tretā Yuga

Vaivasvata Manvantara

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse frames dharma and social-spiritual order as age-dependent: as yugas change, conditions may become inverted (viparyāsa), yet with the advent of a new yuga the appropriate agents of dharma—here, the viprāḥ—re-emerge to re-establish the norms suited to that time.

What is happening in the narrative?

A Deity is describing a sequence in cosmic time: after the Kṛta Yuga ended and disorder arose, within Vaivasvata Manu’s era, when the Tretā Yuga arrived, the brāhmaṇas/sages again appeared or took up their proper function, implying a renewed ordering of religious and ethical life.