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Shloka 118

Śuka’s Guṇa-Transcendence and Vyāsa’s Consolation (शुकगति-वर्णनम्)

कललादू बुदबुदोत्पत्ति: पेशी च बुद्बुदात्‌ स्मृता । पेश्यास्त्वड्राभिनिर्वत्तिनखरोमाणि चाड्रत:

kalalād budbudotpattiḥ peśī ca budbudāt smṛtā | peśyās tv aṅgābhinirvṛttir nakharomāṇi cāṅgataḥ ||

ભીષ્મ બોલ્યા—કલલમાંથી બુદબુદ ઉત્પન્ન થાય છે અને બુદબુદમાંથી ‘પેશી’ (માંસપિંડ) પ્રગટ થાય છે એમ કહેવાય છે. પેશીમાંથી અંગો બને છે અને અંગોમાંથી નખ તથા રોમ પ્રગટ થાય છે.

कललात्from the embryo-mass (kalala)
कललात्:
Apadana
TypeNoun
Rootकलल
FormNeuter, Ablative, Singular
बुदबुदa bubble-like form (budbuda)
बुदबुद:
Karta
TypeNoun
Rootबुदबुद
FormMasculine, Nominative, Singular
उत्पत्तिःarising/origin
उत्पत्तिः:
Karta
TypeNoun
Rootउत्पत्ति
FormFeminine, Nominative, Singular
पेशीa fleshy mass; muscle
पेशी:
Karta
TypeNoun
Rootपेशी
FormFeminine, Nominative, Singular
and
:
TypeIndeclinable
Root
बुदबुदात्from the bubble-like form
बुदबुदात्:
Apadana
TypeNoun
Rootबुदबुद
FormMasculine, Ablative, Singular
स्मृताis said/remembered (as)
स्मृता:
TypeVerb
Rootस्मृ (धातु)
Formक्त (past passive participle), Feminine, Nominative, Singular
पेश्याःfrom the fleshy mass (peshī)
पेश्याः:
Apadana
TypeNoun
Rootपेशी
FormFeminine, Ablative, Singular
त्वक्skin
त्वक्:
Karta
TypeNoun
Rootत्वच्/त्वक्
FormFeminine, Nominative, Singular
अङ्गa limb/organ
अङ्ग:
Karta
TypeNoun
Rootअङ्ग
FormNeuter, Nominative, Singular
अभिनिर्वृत्तिformation; coming into being
अभिनिर्वृत्ति:
Karta
TypeNoun
Rootअभिनिर्वृत्ति
FormFeminine, Nominative, Singular
नखnails
नख:
Karta
TypeNoun
Rootनख
FormMasculine, Nominative, Plural
रोमाणिhairs
रोमाणि:
Karta
TypeNoun
Rootरोमन्
FormNeuter, Nominative, Plural
and
:
TypeIndeclinable
Root
अङ्गात्from the limb/organ
अङ्गात्:
Apadana
TypeNoun
Rootअङ्ग
FormNeuter, Ablative, Singular

भीष्य उवाच

B
Bhīṣma
K
kalala
B
budbuda
P
peśī
A
aṅga
N
nakha
R
roma

Educational Q&A

The verse outlines a traditional sequence of bodily development—kalala to budbuda to peśī to limbs, then hair and nails—prompting ethical humility and detachment by showing the body as a constructed, impermanent product of natural order rather than a basis for ego.

In Śānti Parva, Bhīṣma is instructing Yudhiṣṭhira on reflective knowledge and right understanding; here he describes stages of embryonic formation as part of a broader discourse meant to cultivate discernment about the body and the self.