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 ||
毗湿摩说道：一切众生皆生于大地之上，终亦归并于大地之中。卵生、胎生、湿生与芽生这四类有情之身，皆由大地所成。故而，噢，大地之主，此大地实为世界之母亦为世界之父；噢，人中之王，世间再无与她可比者。
भीष्म उवाच
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.