Shloka 12

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

Anuśāsana-parva 17

Devanagari script

वरदस्य वरेण्यस्य विश्वरूपस्य धीमत:

Transliteration

varadasya vareṇyasya viśvarūpasya dhīmataḥ

Translation

“(I speak of) that wise One who is the bestower of boons, the most excellent and worthy of choice, and whose form is universal.”

Word by Word

• वरदस्य: of the boon-giver
• वरदस्य: Sambandha
• Type: Adjective
• Root: वरद
• Form: Masculine, Genitive, Singular

• वरेण्यस्य: of the most excellent / worthy of choice
• वरेण्यस्य: Sambandha
• Type: Adjective
• Root: वरेण्य
• Form: Masculine, Genitive, Singular

• विश्वरूपस्य: of the universal-formed / having all forms
• विश्वरूपस्य: Sambandha
• Type: Adjective
• Root: विश्वरूप
• Form: Masculine, Genitive, Singular

• धीमतः: of the wise / intelligent one
• धीमतः: Sambandha
• Type: Adjective
• Root: धीमत्
• Form: Masculine, Genitive, Singular

Speaker

वायुदेव उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Vāyudeva (as speaker)
• the boon-giving, all-formed supreme being (implied deity)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse concentrates on devotional recognition of divine qualities—benevolence (granting boons), supreme worthiness (vareṇya), universality (viśvarūpa), and wisdom (dhīmat). Ethically, it frames the ideal object of reverence as one whose power is joined with intelligence and beneficence.

What is happening in the narrative?

Vāyudeva is speaking in a laudatory register, introducing or continuing a eulogy by listing epithets of the deity being invoked—boon-giver, most excellent, universal-formed, and wise—setting a devotional and didactic tone for the surrounding discourse.