Devanagari
सूत उवाच
द्वापरे समनुप्राप्ते तृतीये युगपर्यये ।
जात: पराशराद्योगी वासव्यां कलया हरे: ॥ १४ ॥
Verse text
sūta uvāca
dvāpare samanuprāpte
tṛtīye yuga-paryaye
jātaḥ parāśarād yogī
vāsavyāṁ kalayā hareḥ
Synonyms
sūtaḥ
—
Sūta Gosvāmī
;
uvāca
—
said
;
dvāpare
—
in the second millennium
;
samanuprāpte
—
on the advent of
;
tṛtīye
—
third
;
yuga
—
millennium
;
paryaye
—
in the place of
;
jātaḥ
—
was begotten
;
parāśarāt
—
by Parāśara
;
yogī
—
the great sage
;
vāsavyām
—
in the womb of the daughter of Vasu
;
kalayā
—
in the plenary portion
;
hareḥ
—
of the Personality of Godhead .
Translation
Sūta Gosvāmī said: When the second millennium overlapped the third, the great sage [Vyāsadeva] was born to Parāśara in the womb of Satyavatī, the daughter of Vasu.
Translation (Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura)
Sūta said:
Vyāsa was born in the womb of Satyavatī as a portion of the Lord when the third part of Dvāpara-yuga arrived in the passing of yugas.
Purport
There is a chronological order of the four millenniums, namely Satya, Dvāpara, Tretā and Kali. But sometimes there is overlapping. During the regime of Vaivasvata Manu, there was an overlapping of the twenty-eighth round of the four millenniums, and the third millennium appeared prior to the second. In that particular millennium, Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa also descends, and because of this there was some particular alteration. The mother of the great sage was Satyavatī, the daughter of the Vasu (fisherman), and the father was the great Parāśara Muni. That is the history of Vyāsadeva’s birth. Every millennium is divided into three periods, and each period is called a
sandhyā.
Vyāsadeva appeared in the third
sandhyā
of that particular age.
Commentary (Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura)
In answer to the questions mentioned in verse 3 “in which yuga, at what place” a short account of Vyāsa’s birth and activities is now presented. According to Amara-koṣa, paryaya means a lapse. With a lapse of many yuga cycles (yuga-paryaye), in Dvāpara-yuga, when Kṛṣṇa appeared, Vyāsa was born. It will be explained that Kṛṣṇa appeared in Dvāpara-yuga of the twenty-eighth cycle of yugas in Vaivasvata-manvantara. All yugas are divided into three parts: the beginning portion (saṇdhyā-rūpa), the middle portion (yuga-rūpa) and the end portion (sandhyāṁśa-rūpa). Tṛtīye refers to the third part of Dvāpara-yuga. [Note: The proportions are .1 for the beginning portion, .8 for the middle portion and .1 for the concluding portion of the yuga.] Vyāsa was born from Satyavatī who was the daughter of Uparicara Vasu. Thus vāsavyām means “in the womb of Satyavatī.”