Shloka 3
अन्योन्यस्याभिसम्बन्धादन्योन्यगुणसंश्रयात् । रूप॑ निर्वर्तयत्येतदेवं सर्वासु योनिषु,दोनों पारस्परिक सम्बन्धसे एक दूसरेके गुणोंका आश्रय लेकर ही किसी शरीरका निर्माण होता है। प्रायः सभी योनियोंमें ऐसी ही स्थिति है
anyonyasyābhisambandhād anyonyaguṇasaṁśrayāt | rūpaṁ nirvartayaty etad evaṁ sarvāsu yoniṣu ||
Janaka said: “Through mutual interconnection, and by each taking support of the other’s qualities, a bodily form comes to be produced. In this way, across all womb-born existences, embodiment generally arises from interdependent causes rather than from any single, isolated source.”
जनक उवाच
Educational Q&A
Embodiment is not produced by a single independent agent; it arises through interdependent causes—mutual connection and mutual reliance of qualities—across all forms of birth. The ethical implication is humility and non-attachment: seeing the body as a contingent product of conditions weakens ego and possessiveness.
In Śānti Parva’s philosophical instruction, King Janaka speaks as a teacher, explaining how bodily form comes into being through mutual relations and shared qualities, generalizing this principle to all yoni-s (modes of birth).