Shloka 112
Śiva-stavarāja: Upamanyu’s Preface and Initiation of the Śarva-Nāma Enumeration
Anuśāsana-parva 17
प्रभावात्मा जगत्कालस्थालो लोकहितस्तरु: । सारड्रो नवचक्राड़: केतुमाली सभावन:
prabhāvātmā jagatkālasthālo lokahitastaruḥ | sāraḍro navacakrāḍaḥ ketumālī sabhāvanaḥ ||
Vāyu-deva sprach: „Er ist von strahlender Wesenheit; er ist das Gefäß, in dem Welt und Zeit gesetzt sind. Er steht wie ein Baum des Wohls für alle Wesen. Fest im Innersten, mit einem neunfachen Rad begabt, bannertragend und von edler Gesinnung.“
वायुदेव उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse frames an ideal figure as one who embodies inner radiance and steadfastness, supports the world’s welfare like a sheltering tree, and aligns with cosmic order (kāla). Ethically, it praises beneficence, stability of character, and public-minded virtue.
Vāyu-deva speaks in a laudatory mode, listing epithets that describe a revered person’s qualities—radiant nature, world-benefiting conduct, firmness, and emblematic attributes such as a banner and a ‘ninefold wheel’—as part of a larger discourse that extols exemplary dharmic character.