Shloka 24

Devanagari script

ब्रह्मलोकसे यह स्तवराज स्वर्गलोकमें उतारा गया। पहले इसे तण्डिमुनिने प्राप्त किया था, इसलिये यह “तण्डिकृत सहख्ननामस्तवराज' के रूपमें प्रसिद्ध हुआ ।। स्वर्गाच्चिवात्र भूलोंक॑ तण्डिना हावतारित: । सर्वमड्नलमाडुल्यं सर्वपापप्रणाशनम्‌

Transliteration

svargāc caiva atra bhūlokaṁ taṇḍinā hy avatāritaḥ | sarva-maṅgalam āḍhūlyaṁ sarva-pāpa-praṇāśanam ||

Translation

Vāyu said: “This supreme hymn, brought down from heaven to the human world by the sage Taṇḍi, is renowned as the ‘Taṇḍi-composed Sahasranāma Stavarāja’. It is a source of every auspicious good and a destroyer of all sins.”

Word by Word

स्वर्गात्from heaven

चand

इवas if / like

अत्रhere

भूलोकेin the earthly world

तण्डिनाby Taṇḍin (the sage)

हindeed / surely (emphatic particle)

अवतारितःwas brought down / was descended

सर्वमङ्गलम्all-auspicious (thing) / wholly auspicious

आतुल्यम्incomparable

सर्वपापप्रणाशनम्destroyer of all sins

Speaker

वायुदेव उवाच

Characters & Entities

Vāyu (Vāyudeva)

Svarga (heaven)

Bhūloka (earth)

Sage Taṇḍi

Sahasranāma Stavarāja (the ‘king of hymns’ of a thousand names)

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Geographic Context

Cross References

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

Sacred praise, when received and transmitted through a trustworthy lineage, is presented as ethically transformative: it promotes auspiciousness (maṅgala) and supports moral purification by removing the burden of sin (pāpa).

What is happening in the narrative?

Vāyu identifies the hymn’s origin and authority: it descended from Svarga to the human world through the sage Taṇḍi, and therefore became known as the Taṇḍi-composed ‘Sahasranāma Stavarāja’, celebrated for bestowing welfare and destroying sins.