Shloka 13
Draupadī’s Instruction on Marital Conduct and Household Discipline (चित्तग्रहण-उपदेश)
स तच्छरीरं संत्यज्य प्रविवेश धरां तदा । भूमिं स्पृष्टासजद् धातून् पृथक् पृथगतीव हि
sa taccharīraṃ saṃtyajya praviveśa dharāṃ tadā | bhūmiṃ spṛṣṭāsṛjad dhātūn pṛthak pṛthag atīva hi ||
ثم إنه، بعدما ترك ذلك الجسد، دخل في الأرض. ولمّا مسَّ التراب أخرج العناصر المادّية في وفرةٍ وتنوّع، كلٌّ منها منفصلٌ عن الآخر.
मार्कण्डेय उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse presents a model of disciplined dissolution and ordered re-manifestation: relinquishing attachment to the body (saṃtyajya śarīram) and recognizing that embodied forms arise from distinct material constituents (dhātus) governed by a higher order. Ethically, it points to vairāgya (detachment) and reverence for the structured principles that sustain life.
In Mārkaṇḍeya’s narration, a being gives up his body and merges into the earth; upon contacting the ground, he produces or differentiates many dhātus—material constituents—separately and in great abundance, describing a cosmogonic or transformative act.