Narada Purana — Purva Bhaga, Shloka 93
Sanatkumāra’s Bhāgavata Tantra: Tattvas, Māyā-Bonds, Embodiment, and the Necessity of Dīkṣā
स्वेदजाश्चांडजाश्चैव तथैव च जरायुजाः । चराचरेषु लक्षाणां चतुराशीतियोनयः ॥ ९३ ॥
svedajāścāṃḍajāścaiva tathaiva ca jarāyujāḥ | carācareṣu lakṣāṇāṃ caturāśītiyonayaḥ || 93 ||
Parmi tous les êtres mobiles et immobiles, on dit qu’il existe quatre-vingt-quatre lakh (8,4 millions) d’espèces issues de la naissance : celles nées de la sueur, celles nées de l’œuf, et de même celles nées du ventre (avec placenta).
Narada (teaching in a doctrinal enumeration within Book 1.3)
Vrata: none
Primary Rasa: shanta
Secondary Rasa: adbhuta
FAQs
It frames embodiment as a vast cycle of transmigration across innumerable forms (84 lakhs), encouraging detachment from any single birth and a turn toward liberation-oriented living.
By highlighting the rarity and value of a conscious, reflective birth within the immense field of embodiments, it implicitly supports using one’s present life for steady devotion and remembrance rather than further entanglement in repeated births.
The verse uses technical classificatory language (yonibheda—types of birth) typical of śāstric enumeration; it aligns with systematic, list-based pedagogy used across Vedāṅga-style instruction, even though it is not a direct rule of grammar, ritual, or astrology.