Shloka 25
Brahmacarya-Upāya: Jñāna, Śauca, and the Mind’s Role in Desire (शान्ति पर्व, अध्याय २०७)
इतरास्तु व्यजायन्त गन्धर्वास्तुरगान् द्विजान् | गाश्च किंपुरुषान्मत्स्यानुद्धिज्जांश्व वनस्पतीन्
itarāstu vyajāyanta gandharvāstura-gān dvijān | gāś ca kiṃpuruṣān matsyān udbhijjāṃś ca vanaspatīn ||
भीष्म ने कहा—दक्ष की अन्य कन्याओं से गन्धर्व, अश्व, पक्षी, गौ, किम्पुरुष, मत्स्य, उद्भिज्ज तथा वनस्पतियाँ उत्पन्न हुईं।
भीष्म उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse emphasizes the ordered continuity of creation: diverse classes of beings arise through specific lineages, reflecting a dharmic vision of a structured cosmos where every category of life has a place and a sustaining origin.
Bhīṣma continues a genealogical account describing how other daughters of Dakṣa became mothers of various beings—Gandharvas, animals, birds, aquatic life, and vegetation—mapping the proliferation of life-forms through ancestral lines.