Shloka 131
कामद्रुम-रूपकः तथा शरीर-पुर-रूपकः
The Desire-Tree and the Body-as-City Metaphors
घ्रेयं प्राणं शरीरं च भूमेरेते गुणास्त्रय: । एतावानिन्द्रियग्रामैव्याख्यात: पाज्चभौतिक:
ghreyaṁ prāṇaṁ śarīraṁ ca bhūmer ete guṇās trayaḥ | etāvān indriyagrāmair vyākhyātaḥ pañcabhāutikaḥ ||
毗耶娑说道：“香（嗅）、命息（prāṇa）与身——此三者为地大所具之德。由是，借诸根之聚类，众生‘由五大所成’之体性便得以阐明。”
व्यास उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse links specific experiential features—smell, vital breath, and bodily form—to the earth element, and uses the framework of the senses to clarify how the embodied person is understood as constituted by the five elements.
In the didactic discourse of Śānti Parva, Vyāsa continues an analytical explanation of the body and experience in terms of elemental composition and sense-functions, presenting a classificatory teaching rather than a dramatic event.