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Shloka 50

दानफलप्रकरणम् — उपानहदानं, तिलदानं, भूमिदानं, गोदानं, अन्नदानं च

Gifts and Their Stated Results: Footwear, Sesame, Land, Cows, and Food

सब लोग पृथ्वीपर ही जन्म लेते और पृथ्वीमें ही लीन हो जाते हैं। अण्डज, जरायुज, स्वेदज और उद्धिज्ज--इन चारों प्रकारके प्राणियोंका शरीर पृथ्वीका ही कार्य है ।।

sarve lokāḥ pṛthivyām eva janma labhante pṛthivyām eva ca līyante | aṇḍajā jarāyujāḥ svedajā uddbhijjaś ceti caturvidhānāṃ prāṇināṃ śarīraṃ pṛthivyā eva kāryam || eṣā mātā pitā caiva jagataḥ pṛthivīpate | nānyayā sadṛśaṃ bhūtaṃ kiñcid asti janādhipa ||

بھیشم نے کہا—تمام جاندار زمین ہی پر پیدا ہوتے ہیں اور آخرکار زمین ہی میں جذب ہو جاتے ہیں۔ انڈے سے پیدا ہونے والے، رحم سے پیدا ہونے والے، پسینے سے پیدا ہونے والے اور کونپل/نباتات سے اُگنے والے—ان چاروں قسم کے جانداروں کے جسم محض زمین ہی کی کارسازی ہیں۔ پس اے زمین کے مالک! یہی زمین جگت کی ماں اور باپ ہے؛ اے انسانوں کے حاکم! اس کے مانند کوئی اور ہستی نہیں۔

एषाthis (she)
एषा:
Karta
TypePronoun
Rootएतद्
FormFeminine, Nominative, Singular
माताmother
माता:
Karta
TypeNoun
Rootमातृ
FormFeminine, Nominative, Singular
पिताfather
पिता:
Karta
TypeNoun
Rootपितृ
FormMasculine, Nominative, Singular
and
:
TypeIndeclinable
Root
एवindeed/just
एव:
TypeIndeclinable
Rootएव
जगतःof the world
जगतः:
TypeNoun
Rootजगत्
FormNeuter, Genitive, Singular
पृथिवीपतेO lord of the earth (king)
पृथिवीपते:
TypeNoun
Rootपृथिवीपति
FormMasculine, Vocative, Singular
not
:
TypeIndeclinable
Root
अनयाthan this (by/with this)
अनया:
Karana
TypePronoun
Rootइदम्
FormFeminine, Instrumental, Singular
सदृशम्similar/equal
सदृशम्:
Karta
TypeAdjective
Rootसदृश
FormNeuter, Nominative, Singular
भूतम्being/thing
भूतम्:
Karta
TypeNoun
Rootभूत
FormNeuter, Nominative, Singular
किंचित्anything
किंचित्:
Karta
TypePronoun
Rootकिम् + चित्
FormNeuter, Nominative, Singular
अस्तिis/exists
अस्ति:
TypeVerb
Rootअस्
FormPresent, Third, Singular, Parasmaipada
जनाधिपO ruler of people
जनाधिप:
TypeNoun
Rootजनाधिप
FormMasculine, Vocative, Singular

भीष्म उवाच

B
Bhīṣma
P
Pṛthivī (Earth)
P
Pṛthivīpati (the king, i.e., Yudhiṣṭhira as addressee)
J
Jagat (the world)

Educational Q&A

Bhīṣma teaches reverence for Earth as the universal source and final resting place of embodied life. Since all bodies arise from and return to earth, a king should protect the land and treat it as a parent—worthy of gratitude, restraint in exploitation, and righteous governance.

In the Anuśāsana Parva, Bhīṣma instructs Yudhiṣṭhira on dharma and royal duties. Here he emphasizes a cosmological-ethical point: all beings, across the traditional four modes of birth, are materially constituted from earth; thus Earth is praised as incomparable and parental to the world.