Shloka 25
Adhyaya 56 — The Descent and Fourfold Course of the Ganga; Jambudvipa’s Varshas and Their Conditions
अपां शौक्ष्म्याच्च तोयोत्था ध्यानोपेता च मानसī ।
उपासनादिकार्यात्तु धर्मजा साप्युदाहृता ॥
apāṃ śaukṣmyāc ca toyotthā dhyānopetā ca mānasī / upāsanādikāryāt tu dharmajā sāpy udāhṛtā
水の微妙さゆえに（その成就）は「水生」（toyotthā）と呼ばれ、禅定を伴うものは「心生」（mānasī）である。だが礼拝などの行為から起こるものもまた「法生」（dharmajā）と言われる。
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FAQs
The verse ranks inner discipline (dhyāna) and devotional practice (upāsanā) as causal principles of attainment, presenting a Purāṇic synthesis where both contemplative and ritual paths generate results.
Though embedded in geography, it touches dharma-pravṛtti; still, its primary function here is descriptive cosmology within 'Sarga' (world-order) rather than prescriptive dharma-śāstra.
‘Water-subtlety’ evokes the subtle body’s fluidity (prāṇa/rasas), while ‘mind-born’ points to dhyāna as a creative matrix; ‘dharma-born’ indicates that intentional alignment with ṛta/dharma shapes one’s experiential world.