Shloka 141
Śiva-nāmānukīrtana-prastāvaḥ
Prologue to the praise of Śiva and the Upamanyu testimony
नराणां देवनारीणां तथा प्रेतपिशाचयो: । किरातशबराणां च जलजानामनेकश:
narāṇāṁ devanārīṇāṁ tathā pretapiśācayoḥ | kirātaśabarāṇāṁ ca jalajānām anekaśaḥ ||
قال فاسوديفا: «بين البشر، وبين النساء السماويات، وكذلك بين البريتات والبيشاشات؛ وبين الكيراتا والشابارا أيضًا؛ وبين أصناف كثيرة من المخلوقات المولودة في المياه—(تُرى هذه الحقيقة في كل مكان)».
वासुदेव उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse emphasizes the wide scope of a stated principle by listing many categories of beings—human, divine, spirit-world, tribal communities, and aquatic life—implying that the teaching applies universally across different realms and forms of existence.
Vāsudeva is speaking and broadening his point through an enumerative catalogue of beings. The verse functions as a rhetorical expansion: it signals that what he is describing is not limited to a single group but is observed among many kinds of creatures and communities.