Shloka 24
Brahmacarya-Upāya: Jñāna, Śauca, and the Mind’s Role in Desire (शान्ति पर्व, अध्याय २०७)
भरतनन्दन! धर्मके वसु, अमित तेजस्वी रुद्र, विश्वेदेव, साध्य तथा मरुद्गण--ये बहुत- से पुत्र हुए ।।
bharatanandana! dharmasya vasavaḥ, amita-tejasvī rudraḥ, viśve-devāḥ, sādhyā tathā marud-gaṇāḥ—ete bahavaḥ putrā abhavan. aparāś ca yavīyasyaḥ tābhyo 'nyāḥ saptaviṃśatiḥ. somas tāsāṃ mahābhāgaḥ sarvāsām abhavat patiḥ. tataḥ paścāt dakṣasya anyāḥ saptaviṃśatiḥ kanyā abhavan, yāḥ pūrvoktābhyaḥ kanyābhyo yavīyasyaḥ. mahābhāgaḥ somaḥ tāsāṃ sarvāsām patiḥ. etābhyaḥ atiriktaṃ api dakṣasya bahvyaḥ kanyā abhavan, yāḥ gandharvān aśvān pakṣiṇaḥ gāvaḥ kimpuruṣān matsyān udbhijjān vanaspatīṃś ca ajanayan.
Dijo Bhīṣma: «Oh vástago de Bharata, de Dharma nacieron muchos hijos: los Vasus, el poderoso Rudra de resplandor inconmensurable, los Viśvedevas, los Sādhyas y las huestes de los Maruts. Además, Dakṣa tuvo otro grupo de veintisiete hijas, más jóvenes que las anteriores; y el ilustre Soma se convirtió en el esposo de todas ellas. Más allá de estas, Dakṣa tuvo muchas otras hijas, que dieron origen a diversas clases de seres: Gandharvas, caballos, aves, vacas, Kiṃpuruṣas, peces, seres nacidos de brotes y toda clase de plantas.»
भीष्म उवाच
Educational Q&A
The passage frames cosmic order through dharmic genealogy: divine and natural classes arise from principled sources (Dharma, Dakṣa), suggesting that the world’s diversity is structured, interconnected, and sustained by lawful relationships rather than randomness.
Bhīṣma continues a cosmological-genealogical account: he lists major divine groups as offspring of Dharma, then states that Dakṣa had twenty-seven younger daughters married to Soma, and that other daughters of Dakṣa became progenitors of many species and classes of beings.