Shloka 48
Pracetās, Māriṣā, Dakṣa’s Re-manifestation, and the Brahma-parastava; Cyclic Creation and Genealogies
ऋषिणा यस् तदा गर्भस् तस्या देहे समाहितः निर्जगाम सरोमाञ्चस्वेदरूपी तदङ्गतः
ṛṣiṇā yas tadā garbhas tasyā dehe samāhitaḥ nirjagāma saromāñcasvedarūpī tadaṅgataḥ
The embryo that the sage had then implanted within her body emerged from her limbs, manifesting as sweat accompanied by horripilation (gooseflesh).
Sage Parāśara (narrating to Maitreya)
Speaker: Parasara
Topic: Explanation of the miraculous transition of the implanted embryo, emerging as sweat with horripilation—setting up Māriṣā’s non-ordinary birth.
Teaching: Historical
Quality: revealing
FAQs
It signals a non-ordinary, ascetic (ṛṣi-tejas) mode of generation, where the sage’s power overrides conventional birth and appears through extraordinary bodily signs.
Parāśara frames it as the direct effect of a sage’s spiritual potency being “placed” into a body, producing outcomes that do not follow normal biological processes.
Even when Vishnu is not named in the verse, the Purana’s narrative assumes a cosmos governed by divine order, where extraordinary births and events unfold within Vishnu’s sovereign dharmic framework.