Shloka 22

Brahmacarya-Upāya: Jñāna, Śauca, and the Mind’s Role in Desire (शान्ति पर्व, अध्याय २०७)

Devanagari script

उत्पाद्य तु महाभागस्तासामवरजा दश । ददौ धर्माय धर्मज्ञो दक्ष एव प्रजापति:

Transliteration

utpādya tu mahābhāgas tāsām avarajā daśa | dadau dharmāya dharmajño dakṣa eva prajāpatiḥ ||

Translation

毗湿摩说道：其后，通晓法的尊贵生主达刹，又生十位女儿，皆较先前所述者年幼，并将她们尽数嫁与达摩（Dharma）。

Word by Word

• उत्पाद्य: having produced/created
• उत्पाद्य: Karma
• Type: Verb
• Root: उत्-√पद् (उत्पादयति)
• Form: ल्यप् (absolutive/gerund), परस्मैपद-प्रयोग (causative sense)

• तु: but/indeed
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: तु

• महाभागः: the illustrious one
• महाभागः: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: महाभाग
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• तासाम्: of them
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: तद् (स्त्री.)
• Form: Feminine, Genitive, Plural

• अवरजाः: younger (ones)
• अवरजाः: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: अवरज
• Form: Feminine, Nominative, Plural

• दश: ten
• Type: Numeral
• Root: दशन्
• Form: Feminine, Nominative, Plural (indeclinable numeral usage)

• ददौ: gave
• Type: Verb
• Root: √दा (ददाति)
• Form: Perfect (लिट्), 3rd, Singular, Parasmaipada

• धर्माय: to Dharma
• धर्माय: Sampradana
• Type: Noun
• Root: धर्म
• Form: Masculine, Dative, Singular

• धर्मज्ञः: knower of dharma
• धर्मज्ञः: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: धर्मज्ञ
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• दक्षः: Daksha
• दक्षः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: दक्ष
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• एव: indeed/only
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: एव

• प्रजापतिः: the Prajapati
• प्रजापतिः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: प्रजापति
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

Speaker

भीष्म उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Bhīṣma
• Dakṣa
• Prajāpati
• Dharma
• ten younger daughters of Dakṣa

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse presents marriage and progeny as instruments for sustaining dharma: a dharma-knowing progenitor (Dakṣa) aligns familial alliances with Righteousness (Dharma), symbolizing that social continuity and ethical order should be rooted in dharma rather than mere desire or power.

What is happening in the narrative?

Bhīṣma narrates that Prajāpati Dakṣa, after earlier daughters, produces ten additional younger daughters and gives them to Dharma in marriage, continuing the genealogical account that explains the origins of various lineages associated with righteousness.