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 ||
神祇说道:“当克利多纪(Kṛta Yuga)既已过去,纵使旧有秩序出现了颠倒之变;在毗婆斯瓦特(Vaivasvata)摩奴劫(Manvantara)之中,当特雷塔纪(Tretā Yuga)再度来临时,婆罗门诸贤亦复出世(以顺应其时代而行)。”
देव उवाच
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.