Shloka 47

Devanagari script

षोडशानां सहस््राणां वधूनां केशवस्य ह

Transliteration

ṣoḍaśānāṁ sahasrāṇāṁ vadhūnāṁ keśavasya ha

Translation

Vāyu sprach: „Wahrlich, Keśava hatte sechzehntausend Gemahlinnen.“

Word by Word

• षोडशानाम्: of sixteen
• षोडशानाम्: Sambandha
• Type: Adjective
• Root: षोडश
• Form: Neuter, Genitive, Plural

• सहस्राणाम्: of thousands
• सहस्राणाम्: Sambandha
• Type: Noun
• Root: सहस्र
• Form: Neuter, Genitive, Plural

• वधूनाम्: of brides/wives
• वधूनाम्: Sambandha
• Type: Noun
• Root: वधू
• Form: Feminine, Genitive, Plural

• केशवस्य: of Keśava (Krishna)
• केशवस्य: Sambandha
• Type: Noun
• Root: केशव
• Form: Masculine, Genitive, Singular

• ह: indeed/for (emphatic particle)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: ह

Speaker

वायुदेव उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Vāyudeva
• Keśava (Kṛṣṇa)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse highlights Keśava’s extraordinary, superhuman status as presented in epic tradition; it gestures toward the vastness of his responsibilities and the narrative motif of divine capacity exceeding ordinary human limits.

What is happening in the narrative?

Vāyudeva makes a factual, emphatic statement within the discourse, noting that Keśava is said to have sixteen thousand wives—an epic detail associated with Kṛṣṇa’s life and royal household.