Shloka 8
Chapter 7: Dvīpa–Varṣa–Meru-varṇana
Description of the Dvīpa, Varṣas, and Mount Meru
मिथुनानि च जायन्ते स्त्रियश्वाप्सरसोपमा: । तेषां ते क्षीरिणां क्षीरं पिबन्त्यमृतसंनिभम्
mithunāni ca jāyante striyaś cāpsarasopamāḥ | teṣāṃ te kṣīriṇāṃ kṣīraṃ pibanty amṛtasaṃnibham |
サञ्जयは言った。「その地では男女の一対が共に生まれ、女たちはアプサラスのごとく麗しい。住民は、乳樹より流れ出る甘露にも似た乳を飲む。」
संजय उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse contrasts ordinary human struggle with an idealized realm where life is supported by natural, effortless plenty; it functions as a moral-imaginative foil to the war narrative, reminding the listener that not all worlds are governed by scarcity and violence.
Sañjaya is describing a wondrous region (in the broader digression on distant lands), noting that couples are born as pairs, women are Apsaras-like in beauty, and people drink nectar-like milk from milk-bearing trees.