Shloka 40
Adhyāya 6: Pañca-mahābhūta–guṇa-nirdeśa and Sudarśana-dvīpa
Five Elements, Sensory Qualities, and a Cosmographic Island
समन्वितानि भूतानि तेषु वर्षेषु भारत । एवमेषा महाराज पर्वतैः पृथिवी चिता,भारत! इन सब वर्षोमें निवास करनेवाले प्राणी परस्पर मिल-जुलकर रहते हैं। महाराज! इस प्रकार यह सारी पृथ्वी पर्वतोंद्वारा स्थिर की गयी है
saṁanvitāni bhūtāni teṣu varṣeṣu bhārata | evam eṣā mahārāja parvataiḥ pṛthivī citā ||
Sañjaya nói: “Hỡi Bhārata, các loài hữu tình cư ngụ nơi những miền ấy sống cùng nhau trong sự giao hòa và thuận thuận. Hỡi đại vương, vì thế toàn cõi địa cầu này, như thể, được núi non dựng đặt và làm cho vững bền.”
संजय उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse highlights social and ecological interdependence: beings thrive through mutual association, and the earth’s stability is portrayed as supported and structured by mountains—an image of ordered coexistence.
Sañjaya continues a descriptive account of the world’s regions (varṣas), explaining how creatures live together within them and how the earth is conceived as being set in place by its mountain ranges.