suta uvacha dwapare samanuprapte tritiya yuga paryaye jatah parashard yogi basabyam kalaya hareh.
Synonyms
suta—Suta Goswami; uvacha—said; dwapare—in the second millennium; samanuprapte—on the advent of; tritiya—third; yuga—millennium; paryaye—in the place of; jatah—was born; parashaad—by Parashara; yogi—the great sage; basabyam—in the womb of the daughter of Basu; kalaya—in the plenary portion of; hareh—of the personality of Godhead.
Translation
Suta Goswami said "When there was an overlapping of the second millennium in the third, at that time the great sage (vyasdeva) was born by Parashara in the womb of Satyabati the daughter of the Basu."
Purport
There is a chronological order of the four millenniums namely Satya, Dwapara, Treta and Kali. But sometimes there is some overlapping of them. During the regime of Vaivaswata Manu there was such overlapping in the twenty eightth round of the four millenniums and the third millennium appeared prior to the second. In that particular millennium Lord Sri Krishna also descends and on account of this there was some particular alteration. The mother of the great sage was Satyabati the daughter of the Basu (fisherman) and the father was the great Parashara Muni. That is the history of Vyasdeve's birth. Every millennium is divided into three periods and each period is called a Sandhya. Vyasdeva appeared in the third Sandhya of that particular age.