Shloka 17
अव्यक्त-प्रबोधः (Awakening to the Unmanifest): The 25th and 26th Principles and Eligibility for Brahma-vidyā
विदेहराज! मेरे पितामह वसिष्ठजी
mūlagotrāṇi catvāri samutpannāni pārthiva | aṅgirāḥ kaśyapaś caiva vasiṣṭho bhṛgur eva ca ||
パラーシャラは言った。「王よ、はじめに現れた根本のゴートラ（氏族）は四つのみ—アンギラス（Aṅgiras）、カश्यパ（Kaśyapa）、ヴァシシュタ（Vasiṣṭha）、そしてブリグ（Bhṛgu）であった。ほかのゴートラは、人々の行いと職分に応じて後に生じた。これらの氏族とその名が善き人々の間で広く知られ敬われるに至ったのは、創始の大聖たちが苦行と自己抑制によって卓越を得たからである。」
पराशर उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse grounds social and spiritual prestige in tapas (austerity) and self-restraint rather than mere birth: the foundational gotras are traced to great seers, and later lineages are said to arise according to karma/role, becoming respected through the ascetic merit of their founders.
Parāśara instructs the king of Videha about the origins of gotras, naming four primordial lineages (Aṅgiras, Kaśyapa, Vasiṣṭha, Bhṛgu) and explaining that other gotras developed later in relation to conduct and were honored due to the austerities of their originating sages.