Shloka 29
Āścarya-kathana: Brāhmaṇa–Nāga Dialogue on Sūrya (Vivasvat) and the ‘Second Sun’ Phenomenon
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”
dharmaṃ ca matto gṛhṇīṣva sātvatam nāma nāmataḥ | tena sṛṣṭaṃ kṛtayugaṃ sthāpayasva yathāvidhi ||
“నాయందునుండి ‘సాత్వత’ అనే ధర్మాన్ని స్వీకరించు; దానిచేత యథావిధిగా కృత (సత్య) యుగాన్ని సృష్టించి దృఢంగా స్థాపించు.”
वैशम्पायन उवाच
Educational Q&A
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.
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.