Shloka 9
Adhyaya 49 — Primordial Human Creation, the Rise of Desire, and the Origins of Settlements, Measures, and Agriculture
मासि मास्यर्तवं यत्तु न तदासीत्तु योषिताम् ।
तस्मात्तदा न सुषुवुः सेवितैरपि मैथुनैः ॥
māsi māsy ārtavaṃ yat tu na tad āsīt tu yoṣitām |
tasmāt tadā na suṣuvuḥ sevitair api maithunaiḥ ||
At that time the monthly fertility/menstrual course that women have each month did not exist. Therefore, even though sexual unions were undertaken, they did not give birth then.
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FAQs
The verse treats biological regularities as contingent upon cosmic conditions. It implies that what is ‘natural’ now may not have been so in primordial phases—encouraging humility about human norms and pointing to a cosmos governed by larger dharmic/cosmic order (ṛta) rather than fixed materialism.
Sarga: detailing the developmental stages of reproduction within creation, including an explanation for why early unions did not immediately yield progeny.
The absence of cyclical ‘ārtava’ can symbolize a pre-cyclic state of time itself—before regular periodicity is established—mirroring how saṃsāric cycles (habitual recurrence) become structured only after certain guṇic patterns stabilize.