Shloka 10
Adhyaya 49 — Cosmic Dissolution
आयुषोऽन्ते प्रसूयन्ते मिथुनान्येव ताः सकृत् ।
ततः प्रभृति कल्पेऽस्मिन् मिथुनानां हि सम्भवः ॥
āyuṣo 'nte prasūyante mithunāny eva tāḥ sakṛt |
tataḥ prabhṛti kalpe 'smin mithunānāṃ hi sambhavaḥ ||
ଆୟୁଷର ଶେଷରେ ସେହି ସ୍ତ୍ରୀମାନେ ପ୍ରସବ କଲେ—କେବଳ ଏକଥର—ଏବଂ ସେହିଟି ମଧ୍ୟ ଯୁଗ୍ମ ହିଁ। ସେଠାରୁ ଏହି କଳ୍ପରେ ଯୁଗ୍ମ-ସୃଷ୍ଟି ପ୍ରତିଷ୍ଠିତ ହେଲା।
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FAQs
Procreation is depicted as constrained and gradual in its establishment—first rare, then systematized. The ‘once, at life’s end’ motif underscores that early beings were not driven by continuous reproductive compulsion as later humans are.
Sarga: continuation of the account of how reproduction and population increase become regularized within the kalpa.
Birth at ‘life’s end’ can be read as a symbolic transference: as one cycle closes, another begins—mirroring the Purāṇic idea that endings (saṃhāra tendencies) and beginnings (sarga) interpenetrate.