Shloka 36
अनुक्रमणिकाध्यायः (Anukramaṇikā Adhyāya) — Invocation, Narrator Frame, and Textual Scope
राजर्षयश्न बहव: सर्वे समुदिता गुणै: । आपो द्यौ: पृथिवी वायुरन्तरिक्षं दिशस्तथा,इसी प्रकार बहुत-से राजर्षियोंका प्रादुर्भाव हुआ है, जो सब-के-सब शौर्यादि सदगुणोंसे सम्पन्न थे। क्रमश: उसी ब्रह्माण्डसे जल, द्युलोक, पृथ्वी, वायु, अन्तरिक्ष और दिशाएँ भी प्रकट हुई हैं
rājarṣayaś ca bahavaḥ sarve samuditā guṇaiḥ | āpo dyauḥ pṛthivī vāyur antarīkṣaṃ diśas tathā ||
Muitos rishis reais também vieram à manifestação, todos dotados de qualidades nobres como o valor. Em devida sequência, dessa mesma fonte cósmica surgiram ainda as águas, o reino celeste, a terra, o vento, o espaço intermédio e as direções—apresentando a criação como um desdobrar ordenado, no qual a excelência e a ordem cósmica aparecem juntas.
Educational Q&A
The verse links ethical excellence with cosmic order: alongside the emergence of the world’s fundamental domains (waters, heaven, earth, wind, space, directions), exemplary human figures—rājarṣis—also arise, suggesting that virtue and right order are integral to creation, not merely social ideals.
In the opening cosmological account of the Ādi Parva, the text continues listing what manifested in sequence from the primordial source: first many royal seers endowed with virtues, and then key cosmic constituents and spatial divisions (elements/realms and directions).