Shloka 92
समन्तपञ्चक-आख्यानम् तथा अक्षौहिणी-प्रमाणनिर्णयः
Samantapañcaka Narrative and the Measure of an Akṣauhiṇī
कथेयमभिनिर्वत्ता भरतानां महात्मनाम् | विविधा: सम्भवा राज्ञामुक्ता: सम्भवपर्वणि,इसी पर्वमें क्षीरसागरके मन्थन और उच्चै:श्रवा घोड़ेके जन्मकी भी कथा है। परीक्षित्नन्दन राजा जनमेजयके सर्पयज्ञमें इन भरतवंशी महात्मा राजाओंकी कथा कही गयी है। सम्भवपर्वमें राजाओंके भिन्न-भिन्न प्रकारके जन्मसम्बन्धी वृत्तान्तोंका वर्णन है। इसीमें दूसरे शूरवीरों तथा महर्षि द्वैपषायनके जन्मकी कथा भी है। यहीं देवताओंके अंशावतरणकी कथा कही गयी है
katheyam abhinirvṛttā bharatānāṁ mahātmanām | vividhāḥ sambhavā rājñām uktāḥ sambhava-parvaṇi |
This account has arisen concerning the great-souled kings of the Bharata line. In the Sambhava-parvan, the many and varied origins and birth-stories of kings are narrated.
राम उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse frames the Sambhava-parvan as a dharmic genealogy: the worth of kings and lineages is understood through narrated origins and remembered tradition, implying that rulership is accountable to inherited and transmitted dharma rather than mere power.
The text announces that the story now turns to the great Bharata-line kings and that, in the Sambhava-parvan, their diverse birth-origins and genealogical accounts will be recounted as part of the larger Mahabharata narration.