Shloka 11
भिक्षुलक्षणम्—एकचर्याः, अहिंसा, कैवल्याश्रमः
Marks of the Mendicant: Solitary Wandering, Non-Injury, and the Kaivalya-Discipline
भूतानां जन्म सर्वेषां विविधानां चतुर्विधम् | जरायुजाण्डजोद्धिज्जस्वेदजं चोपलक्षयेत्,संसारमें जो नाना प्रकारके जरायुज, अण्डज, स्वदेज और उद्धिज्ज-ये चतुर्विध प्राणी हैं, उन सबके जन्मकी ओर भी लक्ष्य करना चाहिये
bhūtānāṃ janma sarveṣāṃ vividhānāṃ caturvidham | jarāyujāṇḍajodbhijja-svedajaṃ copalakṣayet |
ವ್ಯಾಸನು ಹೇಳುತ್ತಾನೆ—ಸಂಸಾರದಲ್ಲಿ ವಿಭಿನ್ನ ಜೀವಿಗಳ ಜನ್ಮ ನಾಲ್ಕು ವಿಧ: ಜರಾಯುಜ, ಅಂಡಜ, ಸ್ವೇದಜ ಮತ್ತು ಉದ್ಭಿಜ್ಜ. ಈ ಜನ್ಮಭೇದವನ್ನೂ ಗಮನಿಸಬೇಕು.
व्यास उवाच
Educational Q&A
To cultivate reflective discernment about saṃsāra by recognizing that all living beings arise through four traditional modes of birth; this supports an ethical attitude of respect and restraint toward life in its many forms.
Vyāsa is instructing the listener in a contemplative, knowledge-oriented strand of Śānti Parva, directing attention to the diversity of embodied existence by enumerating the fourfold classification of births.