Shloka 62
अपत्यं तु मृगा: सर्वे मृग्या नरवरोत्तम | ऋक्षाश्व मृगमन्दाया: सूमराश्न॒ परंतप,नरश्रेष्ठी समस्त मृग मृगीकी संतानें हैं। परंतप! मृगमन्दासे रीछ तथा सृमर (छोटी जातिके मृग) उत्पन्न हुए। भद्रमनाने ऐरावत हाथीको अपने पुत्ररूपमें उत्पन्न किया। देवताओंका हाथी महान् गजराज ऐरावत भद्रमनाका ही पुत्र है
vaiśampāyana uvāca | apatyaṃ tu mṛgāḥ sarve mṛgyā naravarottama | ṛkṣāś ca sūmarāś ca mṛgamandāyāḥ paraṃtapa |
Vaiśampāyana said: O best of men, all deer are the offspring of the doe. O scorcher of foes, from Mṛgamandā were born the bears and the sūmara—minor kinds of deer. Thus does the epic set down origins in ordered line, bidding the listener behold creation as a web of kinship, not a chance-made heap.
वैशम्पायन उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse conveys an ordered vision of the world: beings are situated within named lineages, suggesting that nature and creation are intelligible through relationships, origins, and classification rather than chaos.
Vaiśampāyana continues a genealogical catalogue of creatures, stating that deer descend from the doe (Mṛgyā) and that bears and the sūmara variety arise from Mṛgamandā.