Shloka 29

Āścarya-kathana: Brāhmaṇa–Nāga Dialogue on Sūrya (Vivasvat) and the ‘Second Sun’ Phenomenon

Devanagari script

धर्म च मत्तो गृह्नीष्व सात्वतं नाम नामत: । तेन सृष्टं कृतयुगं स्थापयस्व यथाविधि

Transliteration

dharmaṃ ca matto gṛhṇīṣva sātvatam nāma nāmataḥ | tena sṛṣṭaṃ kṛtayugaṃ sthāpayasva yathāvidhi ||

Translation

Vaiśampāyana nói: “Hãy thọ nhận từ ta Dharma được gọi bằng danh xưng ‘Sātvata’. Nhờ đó, hãy tạo dựng Kṛta (Satya) Yuga đúng như điều đã được truyền định, và thiết lập nó theo đúng phép.”

Word by Word

• धर्मम्: dharma (religious duty/law)
• धर्मम्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: धर्म
• Form: Masculine, Accusative, Singular

• च: and
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: च

• मत्तः: from me
• मत्तः: Apadana
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: अस्मद्
• Form: Masculine/Feminine/Neuter, Ablative, Singular

• गृह्णीष्व: take; accept
• Type: Verb
• Root: ग्रह्
• Form: Imperative, Second, Singular, Parasmaipada

• सात्वतम्: Sātvata (pertaining to the Sātvatas); sātvata-named
• सात्वतम्: Karma
• Type: Adjective
• Root: सात्वत
• Form: Neuter, Accusative, Singular

• नाम: name
• नाम: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: नामन्
• Form: Neuter, Accusative, Singular

• नामतः: by name; in name
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: नामन्

• तेन: by that; with that
• तेन: Karana
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: तद्
• Form: Masculine/Neuter, Instrumental, Singular

• सृष्टम्: created; produced
• Type: Verb
• Root: सृज्
• Form: Past Passive Participle (क्त), Neuter, Accusative, Singular

• कृतयुगम्: Kṛta-yuga (the golden age)
• कृतयुगम्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: कृतयुग
• Form: Neuter, Accusative, Singular

• स्थापयस्व: establish; set up
• Type: Verb
• Root: स्था (causative स्थापय-)
• Form: Imperative, Second, Singular, Atmanepada

• यथाविधि: according to rule; duly
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: यथा + विधि

Speaker

वैशम्पायन उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Vaiśampāyana
• Sātvata-dharma
• Kṛta-yuga (Satya-yuga)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

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.

What is happening in the narrative?

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.