Shloka 8
Adhyaya 49 — Primordial Human Creation, the Rise of Desire, and the Origins of Settlements, Measures, and Agriculture
अन्योन्यहृर्च्छ्याविष्टा मैथुनायोपचक्रमुः ।
ततः प्रभृति कल्पेऽस्मिन् मिथुनानां हि सम्भवः ॥
anyonyahṛcchayāviṣṭā maithunāyopacakramuḥ |
tataḥ prabhṛti kalpe 'smin mithunānāṃ hi sambhavaḥ ||
परस्पराभिलाषेण गृहीता मैथुनं प्रति। ततः प्रभृति कल्पेऽस्मिन् युग्मसृष्टिः प्रवर्तिता॥
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FAQs
Desire (kāma/hṛcchā) is portrayed as a driver that initiates embodied continuity through reproduction. The Purāṇic lens does not merely moralize desire; it situates it as a cosmic mechanism that keeps saṃsāra populated once the conditions of embodiment arise.
Sarga: an etiological note explaining how procreation becomes established ‘from then onward’ within the present kalpa.
Mutual longing symbolizes the binding force of rajas-tamas that turns consciousness outward toward sense-driven continuity; ‘mithuna’ can also indicate the pairing of prāṇa-apāna or ida-piṅgalā in later yogic readings, though the primary sense here is biological.