Shloka 81

Devanagari script

वाय्वीरिताभि: सुमनोहराभि- द्रुताभिरत्यर्थसमुत्थिताभि: । गड़ोर्मिभिर्भानुमतीभिरिद्धा: सहस्नरश्मिप्रतिमा भवन्ति,वायुसे प्रेरित हो बड़े वेगसे अत्यन्त ऊँचे उठनेवाली गंगाजीकी परम मनोहर एवं कान्तिमयी तरंगमालाओंसे नहाकर प्रकाशित होनेवाले पुरुष परलोकमें सूर्यके समान तेजस्वी होते हैं

Transliteration

vāyvīritābhiḥ sumanoharābhiḥ drutābhir atyarthasamudgatābhiḥ | gaṅgormi-bhir bhānumatībhir iddhāḥ sahasraraśmi-pratimā bhavanti ||

Translation

Those who are bathed and illumined by the exceedingly delightful, swiftly rising, radiant waves of the Gaṅgā—driven upward by the wind—become in the next world resplendent like the sun with a thousand rays.

Word by Word

वायु-ईरिताभिःimpelled by the wind

सुमनोहराभिःvery charming

द्रुताभिःswift, fast-moving

अत्यर्थ-समुत्थिताभिःrisen exceedingly high

गङ्गा-ऊर्मिभिःby the waves of the Ganga

भानुमतीभिःradiant, shining

इद्धाःkindled; made brilliant

सहस्र-रश्मि-प्रतिमाःlike the thousand-rayed (Sun)

भवन्तिbecome

Speaker

सिद्ध उवाच

Characters & Entities

Siddha

Vāyu (wind)

Gaṅgā

Sūrya (the Sun, sahasraraśmi)

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?

Contact with the sacred Gaṅgā—here depicted as radiant, wind-driven, uplifting waves—purifies and bestows great merit, leading to a luminous, elevated state in the afterlife, comparable to the sun’s brilliance.

What is happening in the narrative?

A Siddha describes the spiritual result of being bathed/illumined by the Gaṅgā’s beautiful, swiftly surging waves: such persons attain a radiant splendor in the next world, likened to the thousand-rayed sun.