Shloka 24
Brahmacarya-Upāya: Jñāna, Śauca, and the Mind’s Role in Desire (शान्ति पर्व, अध्याय २०७)
भरतनन्दन! धर्मके वसु, अमित तेजस्वी रुद्र, विश्वेदेव, साध्य तथा मरुद्गण--ये बहुत- से पुत्र हुए ।।
bharatanandana! dharmasya vasavaḥ, amita-tejasvī rudraḥ, viśve-devāḥ, sādhyā tathā marud-gaṇāḥ—ete bahavaḥ putrā abhavan. aparāś ca yavīyasyaḥ tābhyo 'nyāḥ saptaviṃśatiḥ. somas tāsāṃ mahābhāgaḥ sarvāsām abhavat patiḥ. tataḥ paścāt dakṣasya anyāḥ saptaviṃśatiḥ kanyā abhavan, yāḥ pūrvoktābhyaḥ kanyābhyo yavīyasyaḥ. mahābhāgaḥ somaḥ tāsāṃ sarvāsām patiḥ. etābhyaḥ atiriktaṃ api dakṣasya bahvyaḥ kanyā abhavan, yāḥ gandharvān aśvān pakṣiṇaḥ gāvaḥ kimpuruṣān matsyān udbhijjān vanaspatīṃś ca ajanayan.
毗湿摩说道：“婆罗多的后裔啊，由达摩生出许多儿子——诸婆苏、威猛而光辉无量的鲁陀罗，以及毗湿毗天、萨陀耶与摩鲁特诸众。除此之外，达刹又有二十七位女儿，较先前诸女更为年少；尊贵的苏摩（Soma）成为她们共同的夫主。再此外，达刹尚有许多女儿，繁衍出种种类属的众生——乾闼婆、马、鸟、牛、金布鲁沙、鱼类、由芽生之类，以及草木万植。”
भीष्म उवाच
Educational Q&A
The passage frames cosmic order through dharmic genealogy: divine and natural classes arise from principled sources (Dharma, Dakṣa), suggesting that the world’s diversity is structured, interconnected, and sustained by lawful relationships rather than randomness.
Bhīṣma continues a cosmological-genealogical account: he lists major divine groups as offspring of Dharma, then states that Dakṣa had twenty-seven younger daughters married to Soma, and that other daughters of Dakṣa became progenitors of many species and classes of beings.