Shloka 51
Pracetās, Māriṣā, Dakṣa’s Re-manifestation, and the Brahma-parastava; Cyclic Creation and Genealogies
कण्डोर् अपत्यम् एवं सा वृक्षेभ्यश् च समुद्गता ममापत्यं तथा वायोः प्रम्लोचातनया च सा
kaṇḍor apatyam evaṃ sā vṛkṣebhyaś ca samudgatā mamāpatyaṃ tathā vāyoḥ pramlocātanayā ca sā
Thus she became the offspring of Kaṇḍu and also sprang forth from the trees. She is likewise my child—and also the child of Vāyu—for she was born as the daughter of Pramlocā.
Sage Parāśara (narrating to Maitreya)
Speaker: Parasara
Topic: Origin and mixed parentage of the child born from Pramlocā in relation to Kaṇḍu, the trees, and Vāyu
Teaching: Historical
Quality: authoritative
FAQs
It emphasizes a Puranic motif where lineage can be traced through several causal lines (sage, deity, and nature), integrating human, divine, and natural orders into a single genealogical memory.
Parāśara presents ancestry as layered and narratively inclusive—recording not only biological descent (Kaṇḍu) but also divine agency (Vāyu) and elemental/natural emergence (from trees), as part of dynastic documentation.
Even when Vishnu is not named in the verse, the Vishnu Purana frames such genealogies as expressions of the ordered cosmos sustained by Vishnu—where diverse causes and births still belong to a coherent, divinely upheld dharmic history.