Shloka 4
Utkramaṇa-sthāna and Ariṣṭa-lakṣaṇa: Yājñavalkya’s Instruction on Departure Pathways and Mortality Signs
रत्यर्थमभिसम्बन्धादन्योन्यगुणसंश्रयात् । ऋतोौ निर्वर्त्यते रूपं तद् वक्ष्यामि निदर्शनम्,जब स्त्री ऋतुमती होती है, उस समय रतिके लिये पुरुषके साथ उसका सम्बन्ध होनेसे दोनोंके गुणोंका मिश्रण होनेपर शरीरकी उत्पत्ति होती है। शरीरमें पुरुष अर्थात् पिताके जो गुण हैं तथा माताके जो गुण हैं, उन्हें मैं दृष्टान्तके तौरपर बता रहा हूँ। हड्डी, स्नायु और मज्जा--इन््हें मैं पितासे प्राप्त हुए गुण समझता हूँ तथा त्वचा, मांस और रक्त-ये मातासे पैदा हुए गुण हैं, ऐसा मैंने सुना है। द्विजश्रेष्ठ। यही बात वेद और शास्त्रमें भी पढ़ी जाती है
Janaka uvāca: ratyartham abhisambandhād anyonya-guṇa-saṁśrayāt | ṛtau nirvartyate rūpaṁ tad vakṣyāmi nidarśanam ||
Janaka said: “From the union undertaken for sexual enjoyment, and from the mutual interdependence and blending of the parents’ qualities, a bodily form is brought about when the woman is in her fertile season. I shall explain this by an illustration—how the father’s and the mother’s respective qualities are understood to appear in the body, as taught in the Veda and the śāstras.”
जनक उवाच
Educational Q&A
Janaka teaches that the embodied form arises through parental union at the proper fertile time, and that the child’s body is understood as reflecting a blending of the parents’ qualities, a view he frames as supported by Vedic and śāstric tradition.
In a didactic exchange within Śānti Parva, King Janaka speaks as a teacher, introducing an explanatory ‘illustration’ about how conception and bodily formation are traditionally described, grounding his account in scriptural authority.