Shloka 43

अध्याय ३३७ — ज्ञानमार्ग-वैविध्यप्रश्नः तथा व्यासस्य नारायणोद्भवकथा

Systems of Knowledge and Vyāsa’s Nārāyaṇa-Origin

Devanagari script

एकस्तु शब्दो वितत: श्रुतो5स्माभिरुदीरित:

Transliteration

ekas tu śabdo vitataḥ śruto 'smābhir udīritaḥ | puṇḍarīkākṣa! tava jayaḥ | viśvabhāvana! te praṇāmaḥ | mahāpuruṣāṇām api pūrvaja hṛṣīkeśa! te namaḥ ||

Translation

Bhīṣma sprach: „Wir hörten einen einzigen Ruf, laut ausgestoßen und weithin getragen. Alle riefen: ‘O Puṇḍarīkākṣa, Lotosäugiger, Sieg dir! O Viśvabhāvana, Erhalter der Welt, wir verneigen uns vor dir! O Hṛṣīkeśa, Ahnherr selbst der Großen, dir sei Ehrerbietung!’“

Word by Word

• एकः: one (single)
• एकः: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: एक
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• तु: but/indeed
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: तु

• शब्दः: sound/cry/word
• शब्दः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: शब्द
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• विततः: spread out, extended
• Type: Adjective
• Root: वितत
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• श्रुतः: heard
• Type: Adjective
• Root: श्रुत
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• अस्माभिः: by us
• अस्माभिः: Karana
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: अस्मद्
• Form: —, Instrumental, Plural

• उदीरितः: uttered, proclaimed
• Type: Adjective
• Root: उदीरित
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

Speaker

भीष्म उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Bhishma (Bhīṣma)
• Krishna/Vishnu (Puṇḍarīkākṣa, Viśvabhāvana, Hṛṣīkeśa)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse foregrounds bhakti and dharmic reverence: when the divine is recognized as the sustainer and inner ruler (Hṛṣīkeśa), the proper ethical response is humility, salutation, and celebration of righteousness (jaya) rather than pride or self-assertion.

What is happening in the narrative?

Bhishma reports hearing a powerful, far-spreading acclamation. The gathered people are collectively chanting victory and offering salutations to Krishna, invoking him through honorific epithets that emphasize his cosmic role and spiritual supremacy.