उद्भिज्जाः स्थावराः प्रोक्तास् तेषां पञ्चैव जातयः ॥
वृक्षगुल्मलतावल्ल्यस् त्वक्सारास् तृणजातयः ॥
एषां विंशतिर् एकोना महाभूतेषु पञ्चसु ॥
चतुर्विंशतिर् उद्दिष्टा गायत्री लोकसंमता ॥
य एतां वेद गायत्रीं पुण्यां सर्वगुणान्विताम् ॥
तत्त्वेन भरतश्रेष्ठ स लोकान् न प्रणश्यति ॥
भूमौ हि जायते सर्वं भूमौ सर्वं प्रणश्यति ॥
भूमिः प्रतिष्ठा भूतानां भूमिर् एव परायणम् ॥
यस्य भूमिस् तस्य सर्वं जगत् स्थावरजङ्गमम् ॥
तत्राभिगृद्धा राजानो विनिघ्नन्तीतरेतरम् ॥
udbhijjāḥ sthāvarāḥ proktās teṣāṃ pañcaiva jātayaḥ ||
vṛkṣagulmalatāvallyas tvaksārās tṛṇajātayaḥ ||
eṣāṃ viṃśatir ekonā mahābhūteṣu pañcasu ||
caturviṃśatir uddiṣṭā gāyatrī lokasaṃmatā ||
ya etāṃ veda gāyatrīṃ puṇyāṃ sarvaguṇānvitām ||
tattvena bharataśreṣṭha sa lokān na praṇaśyati ||
bhūmau hi jāyate sarvaṃ bhūmau sarvaṃ praṇaśyati ||
bhūmiḥ pratiṣṭhā bhūtānāṃ bhūmir eva parāyaṇam ||
yasya bhūmis tasya sarvaṃ jagat sthāvarajaṅgamam ||
tatrābhigṛddhā rājāno vinighnantītaretaram ||
The unmoving beings, sprouting from the earth, are declared to be of five kinds: trees, shrubs, creepers and vines, bark-cored plants, and the grass species. Among these, together with the five great elements, the number is declared to be twenty-four; such is the Gayatri, recognized by the world. O best of the Bharatas, whoever truly knows this holy Gayatri, endowed with every virtue, does not lose the worlds. For everything is born upon the earth, and upon the earth everything perishes. The earth is the foundation of beings; the earth alone is their final refuge. Whoever holds the earth holds the whole world, unmoving and moving alike. And so kings, greedily attached to it, slay one another.
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Sanjaya closes his answer with a direct explanation of the war: the earth is not merely territory but the foundation of all beings and of every form of life. Hence to possess the earth seems to possess the whole world. But when this understanding is stripped of dharma, it turns into greed, and kings kill one another for what should have been the ground of their care.