Shloka 85
Śiva-stavarāja: Upamanyu’s Preface and Initiation of the Śarva-Nāma Enumeration
Anuśāsana-parva 17
कृष्णवर्ण: सुवर्णश्व इन्द्रियं सर्वदेहिनाम् । महापादो महाहस्तो महाकायो महायशा:
kṛṣṇavarṇaḥ suvarṇaśva indriyaṁ sarvadehinām | mahāpādo mahāhasto mahākāyo mahāyaśāḥ ||
Dijo Vāyu: «Él es de tono oscuro, con corceles de oro; es la facultad misma del sentido y la percepción en todos los seres encarnados. Vasto en su zancada y poderoso de mano, inmenso en forma y grande en renombre.»
वायुदेव उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse presents the deity (under Viṣṇu-like epithets) as both transcendent and immanent: not only mighty and cosmic in form, but also present within all beings as the very power of the senses. Ethically, it supports reverence for the divine as the inner regulator of embodied life, encouraging humility and disciplined conduct.
Vāyu is speaking in praise, listing identifying marks and greatness of the divine figure—dark-hued, associated with golden steeds, vast-striding (Trivikrama-like), mighty-armed, cosmic-bodied, and renowned—framing the subject as worthy of worship and contemplation.