Shloka 61

Devanagari script

देव्या विवाहे निर्वेत्ते रुद्राण्या भुगुनन्दन । समागमे भगवतो देव्या सह महात्मन:,'भगुकुलरत्न! भृगुनन्दन परशुराम! यह बात उस समयकी है, जब श्रेष्ठ पर्वत हिमालयपर शूलपाणि महात्मा भगवान्‌ रुद्रका देवी रुद्राणीके साथ विवाह-संस्कार सम्पन्न हुआ था और महामना भगवान्‌ शिवको उमादेवीके साथ समागम-सुख प्राप्त था

Transliteration

devyā vivāhe nirvṛtte rudrāṇyā bhṛgunandana | samāgame bhagavato devyā saha mahātmanaḥ ||

Translation

Bhīṣma sprach: „O Nachkomme des Bhṛgu, als die Hochzeitsriten der Göttin Rudrāṇī ordnungsgemäß vollzogen waren und als der großbeseelte Herr (Rudra/Śiva) in inniger Gemeinschaft mit der Göttin vereint war—da (ereignete sich dies).“

Word by Word

देव्याःof the goddess

विवाहेin/at the marriage

निर्वृत्तेhaving been completed

रुद्राण्याःof Rudrāṇī (Pārvatī)

भृगुनन्दनO descendant/son of Bhṛgu (Paraśurāma)

समागमेin/at the union (meeting)

भगवतःof the Blessed Lord

देव्याःof/with the goddess

सहtogether with

महात्मनःof the great-souled one

Speaker

भीष्म उवाच

Characters & Entities

Bhīṣma

Paraśurāma (Bhṛgunandana)

Rudra/Śiva (Bhagavān)

Rudrāṇī (Umā/Devī)

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Geographic Context

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse frames the ensuing account within a sacred, dharmic setting: divine marriage and union are presented as auspicious contexts that authorize and sanctify the narrative that follows, emphasizing reverence for divine order and ritual completion.

What is happening in the narrative?

Bhishma addresses Paraśurāma and specifies the time: after Rudrāṇī’s wedding rites were completed and when Lord Rudra (Śiva) was united with the goddess. It serves as a temporal and thematic introduction to the episode being recounted.