Shloka 9
Śukra’s Ultimatum and Devayānī’s Demand (शुक्र-प्रतिज्ञा तथा देवयानी-वर-याचना)
ददौ दश स धर्माय कश्यपाय त्रयोदश । कालस्य नय:ने युक्ता: सप्तविंशतिमिन्दवे,धन्यं यशस्यमायुष्यं कीर्तयिष्यामि तेडनघ । वैशम्पायनजी कहते हैं--निष्पाप जनमेजय! अब मैं दक्ष प्रजापति, वैवस्वत मनु, भरत, कुरु, पूर, अजमीढ, यादव, कौरव तथा भरतवंशियोंकी कुल-परम्पराका तुमसे वर्णन करूँगा। उनका कुल परम पवित्र, महान् मंगलकारी तथा धन, यश और आयुकी प्राप्ति करानेवाला है उन्होंने दस कन्याएँ धर्मको, तेरह कश्यपको और कालका संचालन करनेमें नियुक्त नक्षत्रस्वरूपा सत्ताईस कन्याएँ चन्द्रमाको ब्याह दीं
vaiśampāyana uvāca | dadau daśa sa dharmāya kaśyapāya trayodaśa | kālasya nayane yuktāḥ saptaviṃśatim indave | dhanyaṃ yaśasyam āyuṣyaṃ kīrtayiṣyāmi te 'nagha |
Vaiśampāyana disse: Ó Janamejaya, sem pecado, narrarei a ti a linhagem—santa, auspiciosa e concedente de riqueza, fama e longa vida—de Dakṣa Prajāpati e a sucessão régia que começa com Vaivasvata Manu, incluindo Bharata, Kuru, Pūru, Ajāmīḍha, os Yādavas, os Kauravas e os descendentes de Bharata. Dakṣa deu dez filhas a Dharma, treze a Kaśyapa e vinte e sete filhas—encarnações das mansões lunares encarregadas de regular o tempo—à Lua (Indu).
वैशम्पायन उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse frames genealogy as ethically meaningful: remembering righteous lineages and cosmic arrangements (Dharma, the Moon, the nakṣatras) is presented as auspicious and supportive of prosperity, fame, and longevity, linking social order (dynasties) with cosmic order (time regulated by lunar mansions).
Vaiśampāyana addresses King Janamejaya and announces that he will narrate the sacred dynastic succession connected with Bharata and related lines. As part of that account, he notes Dakṣa’s giving of daughters in marriage—ten to Dharma, thirteen to Kaśyapa, and twenty-seven nakṣatra-formed daughters to the Moon—explaining the mythic basis for the Moon’s association with the lunar mansions and the reckoning of time.