Shloka 19
ये तथा पूर्वोक्त देवता-दो प्रकारके पितर माने गये हैं। त्वष्टाके पुत्र महायशस्वी श्रीमान् विश्वरूप हुए ।। अजैकपादहिर्बुध्न्यो विरूपाक्षोडथ रैवत: । हरश्न बहुरूपश्न त्र्यम्बकश्न सुरेश्वर:,अजैकपाद, अहिर्बुध्न्य, विरूपाक्ष, रैवत, हर, बहुरूप, त्र्यम्बक, सुरेश्वर, सावित्र, जयन्त, पिनाकी और अपराजित--ये ग्यारह रुद्र हैं। महाभाग आठ वसुओंके नाम पहले ही बताये गये हैं
bhīṣma uvāca | ye tathā pūrvokta-devatā-dvau-prakārakau pitarau mānītau | tvaṣṭāyāḥ putro mahāyaśasvī śrīmān viśvarūpo 'bhavat || ajāikapād ahirbudhnyo virūpākṣo 'tha raivataḥ | haraś ca bahurūpaś ca tryambakaś ca sureśvaraḥ | sāvitraḥ jayantaḥ pinākī cāparājitaḥ—ete ekādaśa rudrāḥ | mahābhāga aṣṭa vasūnāṃ nāmāni pūrvam eva proktāni ||
Bhīṣma said: “In the manner stated earlier, the deities and the Pitṛs are understood to be of two kinds. From Tvaṣṭṛ was born the illustrious and glorious Viśvarūpa. Ajāikapād, Ahirbudhnya, Virūpākṣa, Raivata, Hara, Bahurūpa, Tryambaka, Sureśvara, Sāvitra, Jayanta, Pinākī, and Aparājita—these are the eleven Rudras. O noble one, the names of the eight Vasus have already been declared before.”
भीष्म उवाच
Educational Q&A
The passage reinforces a traditional classification of divine and ancestral orders: it enumerates the Rudras by name and situates them within a broader cosmological genealogy, emphasizing fidelity to earlier authoritative enumeration (“as stated before”).
Bhishma continues his didactic discourse in the Śānti Parva, listing sacred lineages and groups of deities: he mentions Viśvarūpa as Tvaṣṭṛ’s son, then names the Rudras, and notes that the Vasus were already listed earlier.