In all wombs whatever, of gods, ancestors, men, beasts, wild creatures and the rest, O son of Kuntī, the forms, marked by the shaping of the body, with their limbs and parts compacted, that come to be: of those forms the great Brahman, present in every state, is the womb, the cause; and I, the Lord, the giver of the seed, the doer of the laying of the seed, am the father. What are the qualities, and how do they bind? It is told.

In all wombs, those of gods, gandharvas, yakshas, rakshasas, men, beasts, animals, birds, reptiles, and the rest, whatever shapes come to be, are born, of them the great Brahman is the womb, the cause; that is, the cause is nature, in its state from the great principle down to the particular elements, with the host of conscious beings joined to it by Me. And I am the seed-giving father: here and there, in conformity with this and that karma, I am the joiner of the host of conscious beings. This is the meaning. Thus, of those born, at the start of creation, by the sway of earlier karma, through the conjunction with the insentient, in the wombs of gods and the rest, the Lord states the cause of birth again and again in the state of a god and the rest.

This is a brief sub-gloss. For a fuller reading of this verse, see Madhusūdana, Śaṅkara, or Rāmānuja above.

Madhvacharya does not comment on this verse.