Shloka 34
Daitya–Dānava Vaṁśa, Kaśyapa’s Progeny, and the Birth of the Maruts
इत्य् एवम् उक्त्वा तां देवीं स गतः कश्यपो मुनिः दधार सा च तं गर्भं सम्यक् छौचसमन्विता
ity evam uktvā tāṃ devīṃ sa gataḥ kaśyapo muniḥ dadhāra sā ca taṃ garbhaṃ samyak chaucasamanvitā
Having spoken thus to the radiant goddess, the sage Kaśyapa departed. And she, endowed with perfect purity and disciplined conduct, duly conceived and bore that sacred embryo.
Sage Parāśara (narrating to Maitreya)
Speaker: Parasara
Topic: Consequences of Diti’s observance/purity after receiving Kaśyapa’s boon and how the embryo is sustained.
Teaching: Historical
Quality: revealing
Concept: Śauca and disciplined conduct are shown as sustaining conditions for the maturation of karmic outcomes.
Vedantic Theme: Dharma
Application: Cultivate daily purity and disciplined habits to support long-term spiritual aims.
Vishishtadvaita: Embodied practice (ācāra) matters: the soul’s progress occurs through divinely ordered means within prakṛti.
FAQs
The verse links divine maternity and successful conception with śauca—inner and outer purity—showing that disciplined conduct sustains the right unfolding of sacred lineage and cosmic order.
Parāśara presents Kaśyapa as a pivotal progenitor-sage whose unions generate key divine and cosmic lineages; here, after instructing the goddess, he departs, and the ordained birth proceeds through her observance of purity.
Though Vishnu is not named directly, this verse supports the Purāṇic theme that divinely ordered births and lineages operate under the sovereignty of the Supreme Reality—Vishnu—who upholds dharma and the structured emergence of the cosmos.