Shloka 30
Vipula’s Yogic Protection of the Guru’s Household (विपुलस्य योगरक्षा / Vipulasya Yogarakṣā)
यतश्न भूतानि महान्ति पठ्च यतश्न लोका विहिता विधात्रा । यतः पुमांस: प्रमदाश्च निर्मिता- स्तदैव दोषा: प्रमदासु नारद
yataś ca bhūtāni mahānti pañca yataś ca lokā vihitā vidhātrā | yataḥ pumāṁsaḥ pramadāś ca nirmitās tadaiva doṣāḥ pramadāsu nārada nārada ||
ビーシュマは言った。「五大が生じるその根源より、創造主（ヴィダートリ）が諸世界を定めて形づくったその根源より、そして男と女そのものが生み出されたその根源より――まさに同じ根源から、ナーラダよ、女にあるこれらの過失もまた造り出されたのだ。ゆえにこの説示では、それらは女性に帰せられる生得の傾向として示されている。」
भीष्म उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse frames certain alleged 'faults' in women as part of the created order itself: just as the elements, worlds, and human beings arise from the Creator, so too (in this speaker’s portrayal) do these tendencies. Ethically, it functions as a justificatory claim within a didactic discussion, presenting the traits as inherent rather than accidental.
In Anuśāsana Parva, Bhīṣma is instructing and responding within a broader moral-legal discourse. Here he addresses the sage Nārada and makes a cosmological argument: the same creative source that produced the cosmos and humanity also produced the characteristics he is attributing to women.