Shloka 11
भिक्षुलक्षणम्—एकचर्याः, अहिंसा, कैवल्याश्रमः
Marks of the Mendicant: Solitary Wandering, Non-Injury, and the Kaivalya-Discipline
भूतानां जन्म सर्वेषां विविधानां चतुर्विधम् | जरायुजाण्डजोद्धिज्जस्वेदजं चोपलक्षयेत्
bhūtānāṃ janma sarveṣāṃ vividhānāṃ caturvidham | jarāyujāṇḍajodbhijja-svedajaṃ copalakṣayet |
व्यास कहते हैं—संसार में विविध प्रकार के प्राणियों का जन्म चार प्रकार का है—जरायुज, अण्डज, स्वेदज और उद्भिज्ज। इन सबके जन्म-भेद पर भी ध्यान करना चाहिए।
व्यास उवाच
Educational Q&A
To cultivate reflective discernment about saṃsāra by recognizing that all living beings arise through four traditional modes of birth; this supports an ethical attitude of respect and restraint toward life in its many forms.
Vyāsa is instructing the listener in a contemplative, knowledge-oriented strand of Śānti Parva, directing attention to the diversity of embodied existence by enumerating the fourfold classification of births.