Shloka 17
दान-धर्म-आश्रमविधानम्
Dana, Dharma, and the Four Āśramas
रसानां सर्वगन्धानां स्नेहानां प्राणिनां तथा । भूमियोनिरिह ज्ञेया यस्यां सर्व प्रसूयते,“इस पृथ्वीको सम्पूर्ण रसों, गन्धों, स्नेहों तथा प्राणियोंका कारण समझना चाहिये। इसीसे सबकी उत्पत्ति होती है”
rasānāṁ sarvagandhānāṁ snehānāṁ prāṇināṁ tathā | bhūmiyonir iha jñeyā yasyāṁ sarvaṁ prasūyate ||
Wika ni Bharadvāja: “Ang Daigdig na ito ay dapat kilalaning sinapupunan at pinagmumulan ng lahat ng lasa, lahat ng samyo, lahat ng mga bagay na may kakinisan at langis, at gayundin ng mga nilalang na may buhay; sapagkat mula sa kanya isinilang ang lahat.”
भरद्वाज उवाच
Educational Q&A
Earth is presented as the generative source (yoni) from which sensory qualities like taste and smell, material unctuousness, and living beings arise—encouraging a dharmic view of nature as foundational and worthy of respect.
In a didactic discourse of the Śānti Parva, the sage Bharadvāja explains a cosmological principle: the Earth functions as the matrix that produces and supports the world’s substances and life.