Shloka 109
धर्मस्य बहुद्वारत्वम् — Nārada’s Audience with Indra (Śānti-parva 340)
पुराणं च भविष्यं च सरहस्यं च सत्तम । ब्रह्मन्! साधुप्रवर! तुम मुझमें भक्तिभाव रखनेवाले हो, इसलिये मैंने तुमसे भूत और भविष्यके सारे अवतारोंका रहस्यसहित वर्णन किया है || १०८ # ।। भीष्म उवाच एवं स भगवान् देवो विश्वमूर्तिधरोडव्यय:
purāṇaṃ ca bhaviṣyaṃ ca sa-rahasyaṃ ca sattama | brahman! sādhu-pravara! tvaṃ mayi bhakti-bhāvaṃ rakṣasi, tasmāt mayā tubhyaṃ bhūta-bhaviṣyatayoḥ sarveṣām avatārāṇāṃ rahasya-sahitaṃ varṇanaṃ kṛtam || (108) || bhīṣma uvāca: evaṃ sa bhagavān devo viśva-mūrti-dharo 'vyayaḥ ||
Bhīṣma said: “O best of the virtuous, O Brahmin! Because you bear a spirit of devotion toward me, I have therefore described to you—together with their inner mystery—the entire account of the incarnations of the past and of the future.” Thus that Blessed Lord, the divine and imperishable One who bears the form of the whole universe, was spoken of.
भीष्म उवाच