Shloka 22
Adhyaya 49 — Primordial Human Creation, the Rise of Desire, and the Origins of Settlements, Measures, and Agriculture
तासां विना तु संकल्पं जायन्ते मिथुनाः प्रजाः ।
समं जन्म च रूपं च म्रियन्ते चैव ताः समम् ॥
tāsāṃ vinā tu saṃkalpaṃ jāyante mithunāḥ prajāḥ /
samaṃ janma ca rūpaṃ ca mriyante caiva tāḥ samam
Bagi mereka, tanpa sebarang niat (saṃkalpa), zuriat lahir berpasang-pasangan. Kelahiran dan penampakan mereka serupa, dan kematian mereka juga serupa.
FAQs
Individual differentiation (merit, effort, hierarchy) is absent in this depiction; existence runs on an even, impersonal track. The later emergence of choice and moral agency is implied as a turning point in dharmic history.
Sarga/Pratisarga: characteristics of created beings and their mode of propagation.
Birth ‘without saṃkalpa’ points to a world where will is not yet individuated; sameness of form and death suggests undifferentiated prakṛti before strong karmic individuation.