Shloka 14
तुम्बुरुश्नित्रसेनश्व देवदूतश्न विश्रुतः । देवकन्या महाभागा दिव्याश्वाप्सरसां गणा:
tumburuś citrasenaś ca devadūtaś ca viśrutaḥ | devakanyā mahābhāgā divyāś cāpsarasāṃ gaṇāḥ ||
Bhīṣma sprach: «Tumburu, Citraseṇa und der berühmte göttliche Bote; die hochbegnadeten himmlischen Jungfrauen; und die strahlenden Scharen der Apsaras—sie alle sollen unter den Verehrungswürdigen in Erinnerung bleiben.»
भीष्म उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse participates in a protective invocation: remembering and honoring revered celestial beings is presented as spiritually efficacious, reinforcing dharmic humility and reliance on auspicious powers rather than ego or violence.
Bhīṣma is reciting a catalogue of divine and cosmic beings—here naming Gandharvas, a divine messenger, celestial maidens, and apsarases—as part of a broader enumeration meant to invoke protection and благоприятness (auspicious safeguarding).