Shloka 68

Adhyāya 284: Tapas as a Corrective to Household Attachment

Parāśara’s Instruction

Devanagari script

भीष्म उवाच श्रूयतां देवदेवस्य 42426 सडक :। गूढव्रतस्य गुह्मानि प्रकाशानि च भारत,भीष्मजी कहते हैं--भरतनन्दन! अद्भुत कर्म करनेवाले गूढ व्रतधारी देवाधिदेव महादेवजीके कुछ नाम गोपनीय हैं और कुछ प्रकाशित हैं। तुम उन सबको सुनो

Transliteration

bhīṣma uvāca: śrūyatāṃ devadevasya … gūḍhavratasya guhyāni prakāśāni ca bhārata.

Translation

Bhīṣma dijo: «Oh descendiente de Bharata, escucha. De Mahādeva—el Dios de los dioses, de votos profundos y obras maravillosas—algunos nombres son secretos y otros se proclaman abiertamente. Óyelos todos».

Word by Word

• {'bhīṣma uvāca': 'Bhishma said', 'śrūyatām': 'let it be heard

• listen (imperative/passive exhortation)', 'devadevasya': 'of the god of gods (supreme deity)', 'mahādeva': 'Mahadeva

• a principal epithet of Śiva', 'gūḍha': 'hidden, profound, secret', 'vrata': 'vow

• disciplined practice', 'gūḍhavratasya': 'of one whose vows/observances are secret or profound', 'guhyāni': 'secret things

• esoteric (here: secret names/epithets)', 'prakāśāni': 'manifest, public, openly known (here: public names/epithets)', 'ca': 'and', 'bhārata': 'O Bhārata

Speaker

भीष्म उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Bhīṣma
• Bhārata (Yudhiṣṭhira as addressee)
• Devadeva
• Mahādeva (Śiva)