Text 15] Appearance of Sri Narada 205

suta uvaca
dvapare samanuprapte
trttye yuga-paryaye
jatah parasarad yogi
vasavyam kalaya hareh

sitah—Sitta Gosvami; uvdca—said; dvapare—in the second millennium;
samanuprapte—on the advent of; trttye—third; yuga—millennium; paryaye
—in the place of; jatah—was begotten; pardsarat—by Parasgara; yogi—the
great sage; vasavyam—in the womb of the daughter of Vasu; kalaya—in the
plenary portion; hareh—of the Personality of Godhead.

TRANSLATION

Sita Gosvami said: When the second millennium overlapped the third,
the great sage [ Vyasadeva] was born to Paragara in the womb of Satyavati,
the daughter of Vasu.

PURPORT

There is a chronological order of the four millenniums, namely Satya,
Dvapara, Treta 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 Sri Krsna also descends,
and because of this there was some particular alteration. The mother of
the great sage was Satyavati the daughter of the Vasu (fisherman), and the
father was the great Paragara Muni. That is the history of Vyasadeva’s
birth. Every millennium is divided into three periods, and each period is
called a sandhya. Vyasadeva appeared in the third sandhya of that
particular age.

TEXT 15

A PUTA TTI FH AA: |
fara oH ata sea cASs 241

sa kadacit sarasvatya
upasprsya jalarn sucih
vivikta eka asina
udite ravi-mandale
