Shloka 27
स विहायो व्यदधात् पञ्चनाभि: स निर्ममे गां दिवमन्तरिक्षम् सो<रण्यानि व्यसृजत् पर्वतांश्व हृषीकेशो5मितदीप्ताग्नितेजा:
sa vihāyo vyadadhāt pañcanābhiḥ sa nirmame gāṃ divam antarīkṣam | so 'raṇyāni vyasṛjat parvatāṃś ca hṛṣīkeśo 'mitadīptāgnitejāḥ ||
Bhīṣma sprach: „Er, der Herr mit den fünf Naben (pañcanābhi), gestaltete den Himmel; auch die Erde, die Himmelswelt und den Zwischenraum formte er. Jener Hṛṣīkeśa — dessen Glanz einem unermesslich lodernden Feuer gleicht — ließ Wälder und Berge entstehen.“
भीष्म उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse teaches that Kṛṣṇa (Hṛṣīkeśa) is the cosmic creator and sustainer: the worlds and natural order arise from him. Ethically, it encourages devotion and dharmic living by recognizing a divine foundation behind the universe and its order.
In Bhīṣma’s instruction to Yudhiṣṭhira in the Anuśāsana Parva, Bhīṣma praises Kṛṣṇa with cosmic epithets and attributes to him the creation of space, earth, heaven, the atmosphere, forests, and mountains—elevating Kṛṣṇa’s status from ally in the war to supreme divine principle.