Shloka 133

Devanagari script

वराहरूपिणं देवमधृष्यममरैरपि । “वे दानव वर पाकर बल और अभिमानसे मत्त हो उठे हैं। वे मूढ़ दैत्य अव्यक्तस्वरूप भगवान्‌ विष्णुको नहीं जानते, जो देवताओं के लिये भी दुर्धर्ष हैं। उन्होंने वाराह रूप धारण कर रखा है

Transliteration

varāharūpiṇaṃ devam adhṛṣyam amarair api |

Translation

Bhīṣma sprach: „Sie erkennen den göttlichen Herrn nicht, der jenseits aller Erscheinung ist, unbesiegbar selbst für die Götter. In der Gestalt Varāhas, des Ebers, bleibt er unangreifbar; doch jene verblendeten Dānavas, berauscht von Kraft und Hochmut, vermögen ihn nicht zu erkennen.“

Word by Word

वराह-रूपिणम्having the form of a boar (Varaha-formed)

देवम्the god

अधृष्यम्unassailable, unconquerable

अमरैःby the immortals (gods)

अपिeven, also

Speaker

भीष्म उवाच

Characters & Entities

Bhīṣma

Varāha (boar-form of Viṣṇu)

Deva (the Lord)

Amara (the gods/Devas)

Dānava (demons)

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

War Context

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

Power and pride can blind beings to the highest reality: the Lord may be beyond ordinary perception and yet decisively present. The verse warns that arrogance (mada) and delusion (moha) prevent recognition of the divine, who remains unconquerable even to the gods.

What is happening in the narrative?

Bhīṣma describes how the Dānavas, swollen with strength and self-conceit, fail to understand the unmanifest Lord (implicitly Viṣṇu) who has taken the Varāha form. He emphasizes the Lord’s invincibility—‘unassailable even by the gods.’