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Shloka 1

Śiva-stavarāja: Upamanyu’s Preface and Initiation of the Śarva-Nāma Enumeration

Anuśāsana-parva 17

Devanagari script

ब्रा सप्तदशो< ध्याय: शिवसहस्रनामस्तोत्र और उसके पाठका फल वायुदेव उवाच ततः: स प्रयतो भूत्वा मम तात युधिष्ठिर । प्राउ्जलि: प्राह विप्रर्षिनामसंग्रहमादित:,भगवान्‌ श्रीकृष्ण कहते हैं--तात युधिष्ठिर! तदनन्तर ब्रह्मर्षि उपमन्युने मन और इन्द्रियोंको एकाग्र करके पवित्र हो हाथ जोड़ मेरे समक्ष वह नाम-संग्रह आदिसे ही कहना आरम्भ किया

Transliteration

vāyudeva uvāca | tataḥ sa prayato bhūtvā mama tāta yudhiṣṭhira | prāñjaliḥ prāha viprarṣīnām asaṅgraham āditaḥ ||

Translation

Vāyudeva said: “Then, O dear Yudhiṣṭhira, he became fully disciplined and purified. With palms joined in reverence, he began to recite from the very beginning the collected list of the sages’ names.”

Word by Word

वायुदेवःVāyudeva (the Wind-god)

उवाचsaid

ततःthen, thereafter

सःhe

प्रयतःself-restrained, purified

भूत्वाhaving become

ममof me / my

तातdear one / son (voc.)

युधिष्ठिरO Yudhiṣṭhira

प्राञ्जलिःwith joined palms

प्राहsaid, spoke

विप्रर्षीणाम्of the brahmarṣi-s (sage-brahmins)

नामसंग्रहम्collection of names

आदितःfrom the beginning

Speaker

वायुदेव उवाच

Characters & Entities

Vāyudeva

Yudhiṣṭhira

viprarṣis (brahmin-sages)

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Geographic Context

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