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Shloka 108

Śiva-stavarāja: Upamanyu’s Preface and Initiation of the Śarva-Nāma Enumeration

Anuśāsana-parva 17

Devanagari script

सर्वाशयो दर्भचारी सर्वेषां प्राणिनां पति: । देवदेव: सुखासक्त: सदसत्सर्वरत्नवित्‌

Transliteration

sarvāśayo darbha-cārī sarveṣāṁ prāṇināṁ patiḥ | deva-devaḥ sukhāsaktaḥ sad-asat-sarva-ratna-vit ||

Translation

Vāyu-deva sprach: „Er ist die Zuflucht aller; der die Opfergabe annimmt, die auf das heilige Darbha-Gras gelegt wird; der Herr aller Lebewesen; der Gott der Götter; stets versunken in seine eigene selige Natur; Kenner von Sein und Nichtsein; und Erkenner jedes kostbaren Schatzes.“

Word by Word

सर्वाशयःone who is the refuge of all

दर्भचारीone who moves/acts on darbha (sacrificial grass); one associated with darbha-rites

सर्वेषाम्of all

प्राणिनाम्of living beings

पतिःlord, master

देवदेवःgod of gods

सुखासक्तःattached to bliss; absorbed in happiness

सत्the real/being

असत्the unreal/non-being

सर्वरत्नवित्knower of all jewels/treasures; knower of all excellences

Speaker

वायुदेव उवाच

Characters & Entities

Vāyu (Vāyudeva)

Supreme Deity (deva-devaḥ)

darbha grass

havis (oblations)

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse praises the Supreme as the universal refuge and lord, simultaneously present in ritual worship (receiving offerings) and transcendent in nature (abiding in bliss), with complete knowledge of reality and unreality (sat/asat) and of all precious excellences.

What is happening in the narrative?

Vāyu is speaking a eulogy-like description, listing honorific epithets that define the deity’s sovereignty, ritual accessibility, and metaphysical supremacy—typical of Anuśāsana Parva’s didactic passages on dharma and worship.