Shloka 1
ऑपन-आक्रात छा आर: 2 सप्ताधिकदद्विशततमो< ध्याय: श्रीकृष्णसे सम्पूर्ण भूतोंकी उत्पत्तिका तथा उनकी महिमाका कथन युधिषछ्िर उवाच पितामह महाप्राज्ञ पुण्डरीकाक्षमच्युतम् । कर्तारमकृतं विष्णुं भूतानां प्रभवाप्ययम्
Yudhiṣṭhira uvāca: Pitāmaha mahāprājña puṇḍarīkākṣam acyutam | kartāram akṛtaṃ viṣṇuṃ bhūtānāṃ prabhavāpyayam ||
Yudhiṣṭhira said: “O grandsire, O greatly wise one—tell me of Puṇḍarīkākṣa, the unfailing Lord: Viṣṇu, the uncreated doer, who is the source and the dissolution of all beings.”
युधिषछ्िर उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse frames Viṣṇu (identified with Kṛṣṇa through epithets like Acyuta and Puṇḍarīkākṣa) as the eternal, uncreated agent who is both the origin and the dissolution of all beings—grounding ethics and dharma in a cosmic, divine source.
In the Śānti Parva dialogue, Yudhiṣṭhira addresses Bhīṣma as the wise grandsire and asks him to speak about the Lord—his nature and greatness—specifically as the source and end of all creatures.