Shloka 56
अध्याय ३३७ — ज्ञानमार्ग-वैविध्यप्रश्नः तथा व्यासस्य नारायणोद्भवकथा
Systems of Knowledge and Vyāsa’s Nārāyaṇa-Origin
इतः कृतयुगे$तीते विपर्यासं गतेडपि च । वैवस्वते<न्तरे विप्रा: प्राप्ते त्रेतायुगे पुन:
itaḥ kṛtayuge'tīte viparyāsaṃ gate'pi ca | vaivasvate'ntare viprāḥ prāpte tretāyuge punaḥ ||
ਦੇਵ ਨੇ ਆਖਿਆ— ਜਦੋਂ ਕ੍ਰਿਤਯੁਗ ਬੀਤ ਗਿਆ ਅਤੇ ਪੁਰਾਤਨ ਕ੍ਰਮ ਵਿੱਚ ਉਲਟ-ਫੇਰ ਵੀ ਆ ਗਿਆ, ਤਦ ਵੈਵਸਵਤ ਮਨਵੰਤਰ ਵਿੱਚ, ਜਦੋਂ ਤ੍ਰੇਤਾ ਯੁਗ ਮੁੜ ਆਇਆ, ਤਾਂ ਬ੍ਰਾਹਮਣ ਰਿਸ਼ੀ ਫਿਰ ਪ੍ਰਗਟ ਹੋਏ।
देव उवाच
Educational Q&A
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.
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.