Shloka 9
Adhyaya 49 — Primordial Human Creation, the Rise of Desire, and the Origins of Settlements, Measures, and Agriculture
मासि मास्यर्तवं यत्तु न तदासीत्तु योषिताम् ।
तस्मात्तदा न सुषुवुः सेवितैरपि मैथुनैः ॥
māsi māsy ārtavaṃ yat tu na tad āsīt tu yoṣitām |
tasmāt tadā na suṣuvuḥ sevitair api maithunaiḥ ||
அப்போது பெண்களுக்கு மாதந்தோறும் வரும் ரஜஸ்/மாதவிடாய் சுழற்சி இல்லை. ஆகவே மைதுனம் நடந்தாலும் அக்காலத்தில் பிள்ளை பிறக்கவில்லை.
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FAQs
The verse treats biological regularities as contingent upon cosmic conditions. It implies that what is ‘natural’ now may not have been so in primordial phases—encouraging humility about human norms and pointing to a cosmos governed by larger dharmic/cosmic order (ṛta) rather than fixed materialism.
Sarga: detailing the developmental stages of reproduction within creation, including an explanation for why early unions did not immediately yield progeny.
The absence of cyclical ‘ārtava’ can symbolize a pre-cyclic state of time itself—before regular periodicity is established—mirroring how saṃsāric cycles (habitual recurrence) become structured only after certain guṇic patterns stabilize.