Shloka 71
महावराहो गोविन्द: सुषेण: कनकाड्रदी । गुह्रो गभीरो गहनो गुप्तश्चक्रगदाधर:
bhīṣma uvāca | mahāvarāho govindaḥ suṣeṇaḥ kanakāṅgadī | guhyo gabhīro gahano guptaś cakragadādharaḥ ||
Bhishma said: He is Govinda, the Great Boar—who assumed the mighty Varāha form; Suṣeṇa, attended by a beautiful host of companions; Kanakāṅgadī, adorned with golden armlets; Guhya, hidden within the secret space of the heart; Gabhīra, unfathomably profound; Gahana, difficult to penetrate in essence; Gupta, beyond the reach of speech and mind; and Cakragadādhara, the bearer of the discus and mace for the protection of devotees.
भीष्म उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse teaches reverent remembrance of the Lord through epithets that unite transcendence and moral guardianship: He is beyond speech and mind (guhya, gupta) yet actively protects dharma (cakragadādhara). Devotion is presented as an ethical refuge grounded in the Lord’s power to restore and safeguard.
Bhishma is reciting a sequence of divine names praising Govinda (Viṣṇu/Kṛṣṇa). Each name highlights an aspect of the deity—incarnation as Varāha, majestic attendants, divine adornment, hidden inner presence, profundity, and protective weapon-bearing—within the broader Anuśāsana Parva context of instruction on dharma and sacred praise.