Shloka 331

Devanagari script

वेद्यो वैद्य: सदायोगी वीरहा माधवो मधु: । अतीन्द्रियो महामायो महोत्साहो महाबल:

Transliteration

vedyo vaidyaḥ sadāyogī vīrahā mādhavo madhuḥ | atīndriyo mahāmāyo mahotsāho mahābalaḥ ||

Translation

قال بهيشما: هو الذي يُعرَف بالويدات، الطبيب الحقّ الشافي، الثابت أبداً في اليوغا؛ قاتل الأبطال؛ مَادهافا، مَدهو؛ المتعالي عن متناول الحواس، حامل المايا الإلهية العظمى، ذو العزم الجبار والقوة العظيمة. وفي هذه السلسلة من الأسماء يسبّح بهيشما سيادة الرب وقدرته الحامية—بوصفه المقصود الباطن للمعرفة المقدسة، وبوصفه القوة الحاسمة التي تُقيم الدارما بقهر البطش الهدّام.

Word by Word

वेद्यःknowable, to be known

वैद्यःphysician; learned one

सदाalways

योगीyogi; one devoted to yoga

वीरहाslayer of heroes

माधवःMādhava (Vishnu/Krishna)

मधुःMadhu (name); honey/sweetness

अतीन्द्रियःbeyond the senses

महामायःof great māyā; greatly wondrous/illusory

महोत्साहःof great energy/enthusiasm

महाबलःof great strength

Speaker

भीष्म उवाच

Characters & Entities

Bhīṣma

Viṣṇu/Kṛṣṇa (as Mādhava, Madhu)

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

War Context

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Geographic Context

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse presents the Lord as the ultimate object of Vedic knowledge and the healer of worldly and spiritual suffering, while also affirming His transcendent nature (beyond the senses) and His power to uphold dharma through decisive strength and divine agency (māyā).

What is happening in the narrative?

In Anuśāsana Parva, Bhīṣma is instructing and praising the Supreme through a sequence of divine epithets (as in the Viṣṇu-sahasranāma context), describing the Lord’s qualities—healer, yogin, transcendent, and mighty protector—before the listening audience (notably Yudhiṣṭhira in this section).