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Shloka 111

अपि वर्षसहस्रेण सततं पाण्डुनन्दन । अर्जुन! यह है अजन्मा भगवान्‌ महादेवका महामहिमस्वरूप। मैं सहस्रों वर्षोतक लगातार वर्णन करता रहूँ तो भी भगवानके समस्त गुणोंका पार नहीं पा सकता ।। ११० $ई || सर्वर्गरहैगहीतान्‌ वै सर्वपापसमन्वितान्‌

api varṣasahasreṇa satataṃ pāṇḍunandana | arjuna, eṣa ajanmā bhagavān mahādevasya mahāmahimā-svarūpaḥ | ahaṃ sahasrāṇi varṣāṇi satataṃ varṇayeyaṃ tathāpi bhagavataḥ samastaguṇānāṃ pāraṃ na prāpnomi ||

Vyāsa said: “O son of Pāṇḍu, Arjuna—this is the unborn Lord, Mahādeva, the very embodiment of supreme majesty. Even if I were to describe Him unceasingly for thousands of years, I still could not reach the far shore of all the Lord’s qualities.”

अपिeven/also
अपि:
TypeIndeclinable
Rootअपि
वर्षby (a) year
वर्ष:
Karana
TypeNoun
Rootवर्ष
FormNeuter, Instrumental, Singular
सहस्रेणby a thousand
सहस्रेण:
Karana
TypeNoun
Rootसहस्र
FormNeuter, Instrumental, Singular
सततम्continually
सततम्:
TypeIndeclinable
Rootसतत
पाण्डुनन्दनO son of Pाण्डु
पाण्डुनन्दन:
TypeNoun
Rootपाण्डु-नन्दन
FormMasculine, Vocative, Singular
अर्जुनO Arjuna
अर्जुन:
TypeNoun
Rootअर्जुन
FormMasculine, Vocative, Singular
सर्वall
सर्व:
Karma
TypeAdjective
Rootसर्व
FormMasculine, Accusative, Plural
ग्रहैःby planets/seizers
ग्रहैः:
Karana
TypeNoun
Rootग्रह
FormMasculine, Instrumental, Plural
गृहीतान्seized/possessed
गृहीतान्:
Karma
TypeVerb
Rootग्रह्
Formक्त (past passive participle), Masculine, Accusative, Plural, Passive (participial)
वैindeed
वै:
TypeIndeclinable
Rootवै
सर्वall
सर्व:
Karma
TypeAdjective
Rootसर्व
FormMasculine, Accusative, Plural
पापwith sin/evil
पाप:
Karana
TypeNoun
Rootपाप
FormNeuter, Instrumental, Singular
समन्वितान्endowed/associated (with)
समन्वितान्:
Karma
TypeVerb
Rootसम्-अन्-वि-इ (समन्वि/समन्वय)
Formक्त (past passive participle), Masculine, Accusative, Plural, Passive (participial)

व्यास उवाच

V
Vyāsa
A
Arjuna
P
Pāṇḍu
M
Mahādeva (Śiva)
B
Bhagavān (the Lord)

Educational Q&A

The verse teaches the inexhaustibility of the divine: even a sage like Vyāsa admits that the Lord’s qualities are beyond complete description. Ethically, it models humility—true wisdom recognizes its limits before the vastness of the sacred.

Vyāsa addresses Arjuna (as ‘son of Pāṇḍu’) and identifies Mahādeva as the unborn Lord whose supreme majesty cannot be fully captured in words, even across thousands of years of continuous praise.