Shloka 7
Chapter 7: Dvīpa–Varṣa–Meru-varṇana
Description of the Dvīpa, Varṣas, and Mount Meru
देवलोकच्युता: सर्वे जायन्ते तत्र मानवा: | शुक्लाभिजनसम्पन्ना: सर्वे सुप्रियदर्शना:,वहाँ देवलोकसे भूतलपर आये हुए समस्त पुण्यात्मा मनुष्य ही जन्म ग्रहण करते हैं। ये सभी उत्तम कुलसे सम्पन्न और देखनेमें अत्यन्त प्रिय होते हैं इति श्रीमहाभारते भीष्मपर्वणि जम्बूखण्डविनिर्माणपर्वणि माल्यवद्)र्णने सप्तमो<थध्याय:
devalokacyutāḥ sarve jāyante tatra mānavāḥ | śuklābhijanasampannāḥ sarve supriyadarśanāḥ ||
Sañjaya said: All those who have descended from the world of the gods are born there as human beings. Endowed with a pure and noble lineage, they are all pleasing to behold—virtuous souls whose merit has brought them from celestial realms to the earthly plane.
संजय उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse links ethical merit (puṇya) with the conditions of human birth: those who descend from heavenly realms are portrayed as being born among humans with purity of lineage and pleasing qualities, suggesting a moral causality where past virtue shapes present embodiment and social circumstances.
Sañjaya continues a cosmographical description (in the Jambūkhanda-related section), explaining the kind of beings who are born in that region: humans who have come down from Devaloka, characterized as virtuous and of noble, auspicious birth.