Shloka 76
अध्याय १६ — शङ्कर-उमा-वरदानम् तथा तण्डि-स्तुतिः (Śaṅkara–Umā Boon-Granting and Taṇḍi’s Hymn)
गुह्वानीमानि नामानि तण्डिर्भगवतो<च्युत । देवप्रसादाद् देवेश: पुरा प्राह महात्मने
guhyānīmāni nāmāni taṇḍir bhagavato 'cyuta | devaprasādād deveśaḥ purā prāha mahātmane ||
Vāyu sprach: „O Acyuta, der Weise Taṇḍi legte mir einst eben jene geheimen Namen des erhabenen Herrn dar—Namen, die in alter Zeit der Götterherr Brahmā dem großherzigen Taṇḍi durch die Gnade des Deva (Mahādeva) offenbart hatte.“
वायुदेव उवाच
Educational Q&A
Sacred knowledge—especially divine names—is portrayed as a grace-bestowed, lineage-transmitted teaching: it is received through divine favor (prasāda) and passed on responsibly from a qualified source to a worthy recipient.
Vāyu addresses Kṛṣṇa (Acyuta) and explains the provenance of certain secret names of Mahādeva: Brahmā once taught them to the sage Taṇḍi by Mahādeva’s grace, and Taṇḍi later recounted those same names to Vāyu.