Shloka 110

Pitṛ-śrāddha-haviḥ-phala-nirdeśa

Offerings for Ancestors and Their Stated Results

Devanagari script

शेषा: प्रजानां पतय: स्रोतोभ्यस्तस्य जज्ञिरे । ऋषयो रोमकूपेभ्य: स्वेदाच्छन्दो बलान्मन:,शेष प्रजापतिगण उनके श्रवण आदि इन्द्रियोंसे उत्पन्न हुए। रोमकूपोंसे ऋषि, पसीनेसे छन्‍्द और वीर्यसे मनकी उत्पत्ति हुई

Transliteration

śeṣāḥ prajānāṁ patayaḥ srotobhyaḥ tasya jajñire | ṛṣayo romakūpebhyaḥ svedāc chando balān manaḥ ||

Translation

ശേഷിച്ച പ്രജാപതിമാർ അവന്റെ സ്രോതസ്സുകളിൽ നിന്ന് (ഇന്ദ്രിയപ്രവാഹങ്ങളിൽ നിന്ന്) ജനിച്ചു. രോമകൂപങ്ങളിൽ നിന്ന് ഋഷിമാർ, വിയർപ്പിൽ നിന്ന് വേദഛന്ദസ്സുകൾ, അവന്റെ ബലം/വീര്യത്തിൽ നിന്ന് മനസ്സ് ഉദ്ഭവിച്ചു.

Word by Word

शेषाःthe remaining (others)

प्रजानाम्of the creatures/subjects

पतयःlords, masters

स्रोतोभ्यःfrom the channels/streams (sense-channels)

तस्यof him/of that (Prajāpati)

जज्ञिरेwere born/arose

ऋषयःsages

रोमकूपेभ्यःfrom the hair-pores

स्वेदात्from sweat

छन्दःthe Vedic meters/Chandas

बलात्from strength/vigor

मनःmind

Speaker

वसिष्ठ उवाच

Characters & Entities

Vasiṣṭha

Ṛ

ṛṣayaḥ (seers)

chandaḥ (Vedic metres)

manaḥ (mind)

prajā-pati-like lords of creatures (patayaḥ prajānām)

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Geographic Context

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

That the constituents of spiritual authority—sages (ṛṣis), sacred metres (chandas), and mind (manas)—are portrayed as arising from the cosmic source, underscoring their sanctity and the ethical duty to align thought and speech with dharma.

What is happening in the narrative?

Vasiṣṭha is describing a cosmogonic genealogy: various classes of beings and principles are said to originate from different aspects of a primordial being—channels, hair-pores, sweat, and vital potency—mapping the world’s order onto the body of the cosmic source.