Shloka 53
Adhyaya 49 — Primordial Human Creation, the Rise of Desire, and the Origins of Settlements, Measures, and Agriculture
वृक्षस्यैवङ्गताः शाखास्तथैवञ्चापरी गताः ।
नताश्चैवोन्नताश्चैव तद्वच्छाखाः प्रचक्रिरे ॥
vṛkṣasyaivaṅgatāḥ śākhās tathaivañ cāparī gatāḥ / natāś caivonnatāś caiva tadvacchākhāḥ pracakrire
Just as some branches of a tree go in one direction and others go differently—some bending down and others rising up—so they fashioned the branches as structural elements in that very manner.
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FAQs
Nature is treated as the first teacher of form and function; human craft is an imitation (anukaraṇa) of organic order.
Not a formal pancalakṣaṇa element; it is cultural-pratisarga style description of how humans re-establish living systems.
Branches bending and rising mirror the psyche’s tendencies; a stable ‘house’ (life-order) requires integrating downward (grounding) and upward (aspiration) movements.