Shloka 76
अध्याय १६ — शङ्कर-उमा-वरदानम् तथा तण्डि-स्तुतिः (Śaṅkara–Umā Boon-Granting and Taṇḍi’s Hymn)
गुह्वानीमानि नामानि तण्डिर्भगवतो<च्युत । देवप्रसादाद् देवेश: पुरा प्राह महात्मने,अच्युत! पहले देवेश्वर ब्रह्माजीने महादेवजीकी कृपासे महात्मा तण्डिके निकट जिन नामोंका वर्णन किया था, महर्षि तण्डिने भगवान् महादेवके उन्हीं समस्त गोपनीय नामोंका मेरे समक्ष प्रतिपादन किया था
guhyānīmāni nāmāni taṇḍir bhagavato 'cyuta | devaprasādād deveśaḥ purā prāha mahātmane ||
Vāyu said: “O Acyuta, the sage Taṇḍi once set forth to me those very secret names of the Blessed Lord—names that, in ancient times, the Lord of the gods, Brahmā, had disclosed to the great-souled Taṇḍi by the grace of the Deva (Mahādeva).”
वायुदेव उवाच
Educational Q&A
Sacred knowledge—especially divine names—is portrayed as a grace-bestowed, lineage-transmitted teaching: it is received through divine favor (prasāda) and passed on responsibly from a qualified source to a worthy recipient.
Vāyu addresses Kṛṣṇa (Acyuta) and explains the provenance of certain secret names of Mahādeva: Brahmā once taught them to the sage Taṇḍi by Mahādeva’s grace, and Taṇḍi later recounted those same names to Vāyu.