Shloka 3

Devanagari script

अन्योन्यस्याभिसम्बन्धादन्योन्यगुणसंश्रयात्‌ । रूप॑ निर्वर्तयत्येतदेवं सर्वासु योनिषु,दोनों पारस्परिक सम्बन्धसे एक दूसरेके गुणोंका आश्रय लेकर ही किसी शरीरका निर्माण होता है। प्रायः सभी योनियोंमें ऐसी ही स्थिति है

Transliteration

anyonyasyābhisambandhād anyonyaguṇasaṁśrayāt | rūpaṁ nirvartayaty etad evaṁ sarvāsu yoniṣu ||

Translation

Vua Janaka nói: “Do sự liên hệ lẫn nhau, và do mỗi bên nương tựa vào những phẩm tính của bên kia, một thân thể mới được tạo thành. Như vậy, trong mọi loài sinh từ bào thai, sự thọ thân phần nhiều phát sinh từ các nhân duyên tương thuộc, chứ không từ một nguồn đơn lẻ.”

Word by Word

अन्योन्यस्यof one another

अभिसम्बन्धात्from mutual connection/association

अन्योन्यof one another

गुणof (the) qualities

संश्रयात्from dependence/resort (to)

रूपम्form/body

निर्वर्तयतिbrings about/produces

एतत्this (result/thing)

एवम्thus/in this manner

सर्वासुin all

योनिषुin (all) wombs/species/births

Speaker

जनक उवाच

Characters & Entities

Janaka

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

Embodiment is not produced by a single independent agent; it arises through interdependent causes—mutual connection and mutual reliance of qualities—across all forms of birth. The ethical implication is humility and non-attachment: seeing the body as a contingent product of conditions weakens ego and possessiveness.

What is happening in the narrative?

In Śānti Parva’s philosophical instruction, King Janaka speaks as a teacher, explaining how bodily form comes into being through mutual relations and shared qualities, generalizing this principle to all yoni-s (modes of birth).