Shloka 42

Devanagari script

नासिक्यं चापि मे जन्म त्वत्त: परममुच्यते । अण्डजं चापि मे जन्म त्वत्त: षछं विनिर्मितम्‌,उसके बाद आपकी नासिकासे मेरा पाँचवाँ उत्तम जन्म बताया जाता है। तदनन्तर मैं आपके द्वारा ब्रह्माण्डसे उत्पन्न किया गया। वह मेरा छठा जन्म था

Transliteration

nāsikyaṃ cāpi me janma tvattaḥ param ucyate | aṇḍajaṃ cāpi me janma tvattaḥ ṣaṣṭhaṃ vinirmitam ||

Translation

మీ నాసిక నుండి నా జన్మ కూడా నా ఐదవ, పరమోత్తమ జన్మగా చెప్పబడుతుంది. అనంతరం మీచేత బ్రహ్మాండ-రూప అండమునుండి నేను జన్మించాను—అదే నా ఆరవ జన్మ.

Word by Word

नासिक्यम्nasal (birth/origin) / pertaining to the nose

चand

अपिalso

मेof me / my

जन्मbirth

त्वत्तःfrom you

परम्supreme / excellent

उच्यतेis said / is called

अण्डजम्egg-born (birth/origin)

चand

अपिalso

मेof me / my

जन्मbirth

त्वत्तःfrom you

षष्ठम्sixth

विनिर्मितम्made/created (well fashioned)

Speaker

वैशग्पायन उवाच

Characters & Entities

Vaiśaṃpāyana

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

War Context

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Geographic Context

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse frames identity and authority through sacred origins: multiple births are narrated to establish a being’s exceptional status and the creative power of the progenitor, emphasizing a cosmic order where creation and lineage carry ethical and spiritual weight.

What is happening in the narrative?

The speaker recounts successive modes of coming into existence—first as ‘nostril-born’ (counted as the fifth birth), and then as ‘egg-born’ from the cosmic egg (the sixth birth)—as part of a larger mythic genealogy being related in the Śānti Parva.