Shloka 15

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

Anuśāsana-parva 17

Devanagari script

सर्वपापापहमिदं चतुर्वेदसमन्वितम्‌

Transliteration

sarvapāpāpaham idaṃ caturvedasamanvitam

Translation

Vāyu-deva said: “This (teaching/utterance) removes all sins, and it is endowed with the essence and authority of the four Vedas.”

Word by Word

• सर्वपापापहम्: removing all sins
• सर्वपापापहम्: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: सर्वपापापह
• Form: Neuter, Nominative, Singular

• इदम्: this
• इदम्: Karta
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: इदम्
• Form: Neuter, Nominative, Singular

• चतुर्वेदसमन्वितम्: endowed with the four Vedas
• चतुर्वेदसमन्वितम्: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: चतुर्वेदसमन्वित
• Form: Neuter, Nominative, Singular

Speaker

वायुदेव उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Vāyu (Wind-god)
• the Four Vedas (Caturveda)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse asserts that the instruction being presented is spiritually purifying—capable of removing all pāpa—and that it carries Vedic completeness and legitimacy, being ‘endowed with the four Vedas’ (i.e., aligned with Vedic dharma and its highest purport).

What is happening in the narrative?

Vāyu-deva, as the speaker, is endorsing the forthcoming or just-stated doctrine as exceptionally authoritative and efficacious: it is not merely advice but a Veda-consistent teaching presented as a means of moral and spiritual cleansing.