Shloka 37
Droṇotpattiḥ and Dhanurveda-Prāpti
Origin of Droṇa and Acquisition of Martial Science
तथा त्वमपि मय्येवं मनसा भरतर्षभ । शक्तो जनयितु पुत्रांस्तपोयोगबलान्वित:
tathā tvam api mayy evaṁ manasā bharatarṣabha | śakto janayituṁ putrāṁs tapoyogabalānvitaḥ ||
「同じく汝も、バラタ族の雄牛よ、ただ心の決意ひとつによって、我が胎内に多くの子をもうけ得る。汝は苦行（タパス）とヨーガの修練より生じた力を具えているゆえに。」
वैशम्पायन उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse highlights the Mahābhārata’s idea that intense tapas and yogic discipline can confer extraordinary capacities, including the power to effect results through mental resolve; it also frames such power as something to be used within the aims of lineage and dharma.
A speaker addresses a Bharata ruler as “bharatarṣabha,” stating that, just as something similar has occurred, he too can generate many sons through mental intention because he possesses the strength arising from austerity and yoga—pointing to a supernatural mode of begetting heirs.