Shloka 37
Droṇotpattiḥ and Dhanurveda-Prāpti
Origin of Droṇa and Acquisition of Martial Science
तथा त्वमपि मय्येवं मनसा भरतर्षभ । शक्तो जनयितु पुत्रांस्तपोयोगबलान्वित:
tathā tvam api mayy evaṁ manasā bharatarṣabha | śakto janayituṁ putrāṁs tapoyogabalānvitaḥ ||
“同样地，噢，婆罗多族中的雄牛啊，你也能以同样方式，仅凭心念之决断，令我怀生众多儿子；因为你具足由苦行与瑜伽修持所生的威力。”
वैशम्पायन उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse highlights the Mahābhārata’s idea that intense tapas and yogic discipline can confer extraordinary capacities, including the power to effect results through mental resolve; it also frames such power as something to be used within the aims of lineage and dharma.
A speaker addresses a Bharata ruler as “bharatarṣabha,” stating that, just as something similar has occurred, he too can generate many sons through mental intention because he possesses the strength arising from austerity and yoga—pointing to a supernatural mode of begetting heirs.