Shloka 9
Śuka’s Manifestation from the Araṇi (Āraṇeya-janma) — शुकजन्म (आरणेय-सम्भव)
देवा: पितृणां च सुता देवैलोका: समावृता: । चराचरा नरश्रेष्ठ इत्येवमनुशुश्रुम
devāḥ pitṝṇāṃ ca sutā devalokāḥ samāvṛtāḥ | carācarā naraśreṣṭha ityevam anuśuśruma ||
阎若婆迦说道：“我们曾如此听闻，噢，人中最胜者：诸天亦为祖灵（Pitṛ，祖先之父）之子嗣，而诸天界亦尽摄于其中；诚然，一切动者与不动者，皆包含在此秩序之内。”
याज़्ञवल्क्य उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse presents a traditional cosmological-ritual view: the Pitṛs (ancestral Fathers) are foundational, with even the gods described as their offspring, and the divine realms and all beings (moving and unmoving) understood as encompassed within this overarching ancestral order.
Yājñavalkya is instructing his listener (addressed as ‘best of men’) by citing received tradition (“we have heard thus”), summarizing a doctrine about the origin and inclusion of gods, worlds, and all creation in relation to the Pitṛs.