Shloka 3
Utkramaṇa-sthāna and Ariṣṭa-lakṣaṇa: Yājñavalkya’s Instruction on Departure Pathways and Mortality Signs
अन्योन्यस्याभिसम्बन्धादन्योन्यगुणसंश्रयात् । रूप॑ निर्वर्तयत्येतदेवं सर्वासु योनिषु
anyonyasyābhisambandhād anyonyaguṇasaṁśrayāt | rūpaṁ nirvartayaty etad evaṁ sarvāsu yoniṣu ||
قال جانَكا: «بسبب الترابط المتبادل، وبأن كلاً منهما يستند إلى صفات الآخر، تتكوَّن الصورة الجسدية. وهكذا، في جميع الكائنات المولودة من الأرحام، تنشأ التجسُّدات غالباً من عللٍ متساندة متداخلة، لا من مصدرٍ واحدٍ منفرد».
जनक उवाच
Educational Q&A
Embodiment is not produced by a single independent agent; it arises through interdependent causes—mutual connection and mutual reliance of qualities—across all forms of birth. The ethical implication is humility and non-attachment: seeing the body as a contingent product of conditions weakens ego and possessiveness.
In Śānti Parva’s philosophical instruction, King Janaka speaks as a teacher, explaining how bodily form comes into being through mutual relations and shared qualities, generalizing this principle to all yoni-s (modes of birth).