Shloka 58
Śiva-stavarāja: Upamanyu’s Preface and Initiation of the Śarva-Nāma Enumeration
Anuśāsana-parva 17
शिखी मुण्डी जटी ज्वाली मूर्तिजो मूर्द्धनो बली । वेणवी पणवी ताली खली कालकटंकट:
śikhī muṇḍī jaṭī jvālī mūrtijo mūrdhano balī | veṇavī paṇavī tālī khalī kāla-kaṭaṅkaṭaḥ ||
Vāyu-deva sprach: „Er ist der mit dem Haarknoten, der Kahlgeschorene, der Träger verfilzter Locken, und der im heiligen Feuer lodernde; Er erscheint in leiblicher Gestalt und ist am Scheitel (dem höchsten geistigen Zentrum) zu betrachten; Er ist mächtig. Er ist der Flötenspieler, der Trommler und der Hüter des Taktes; Er ist der Herr der Tenne und der, der selbst die Macht des Todes (Yama) verhüllt.“
वायुदेव उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse strings together epithets to show the one divine reality as present across all āśramas (householder, renunciant, forest-dweller, student) and across sacred and worldly domains (ritual fire, meditation, music, agriculture), culminating in transcendence over Kāla/Yama—implying that true divinity pervades every legitimate mode of dharmic life and surpasses death.
Vāyudeva is speaking and praising the deity through a litany of names/attributes. The speech functions as a devotional identification: the praised figure can appear in multiple social-religious forms and activities, and is ultimately the supreme power who can conceal or overcome Death.