Shloka 22
Adhyaya 49 — Primordial Human Creation, the Rise of Desire, and the Origins of Settlements, Measures, and Agriculture
तासां विना तु संकल्पं जायन्ते मिथुनाः प्रजाः ।
समं जन्म च रूपं च म्रियन्ते चैव ताः समम् ॥
tāsāṃ vinā tu saṃkalpaṃ jāyante mithunāḥ prajāḥ /
samaṃ janma ca rūpaṃ ca mriyante caiva tāḥ samam
بالنسبة لهم، من غير قصدٍ أو عزمٍ (saṃkalpa)، وُلِد نسلٌ مزدوجٌ على هيئة أزواج. وكان ميلادهم وظهورهم متشابهين، وكذلك كانت وفاتهم على السواء.
FAQs
Individual differentiation (merit, effort, hierarchy) is absent in this depiction; existence runs on an even, impersonal track. The later emergence of choice and moral agency is implied as a turning point in dharmic history.
Sarga/Pratisarga: characteristics of created beings and their mode of propagation.
Birth ‘without saṃkalpa’ points to a world where will is not yet individuated; sameness of form and death suggests undifferentiated prakṛti before strong karmic individuation.