Shloka 133
Śiva-stavarāja: Upamanyu’s Preface and Initiation of the Śarva-Nāma Enumeration
Anuśāsana-parva 17
सहस्रबाहु: सर्वाज्गज: शरण्य: सर्वलोककृत् । पवित्र त्रिककुन्मन्त्र: कनिष्ठ: कृष्णपिज्रल:
sahasrabāhuḥ sarvāṅgajaḥ śaraṇyaḥ sarvalokakṛt | pavitraḥ trikakunmantraḥ kaniṣṭhaḥ kṛṣṇapiṅgalaḥ ||
Vāyu-deva dit : «Il est le Mille-bras, accompli en chacun de ses membres, digne d’être pris pour refuge, et créateur de tous les mondes. Il est le Très-Purifiant, le mantra de la Gāyatrī aux trois pas ; il est le plus jeune parmi les fils d’Aditi—Vişṇu sous la forme de Vāmana—et le Seigneur sombre et fauve, portant l’aspect mêlé de Hari et de Hara.»
वायुदेव उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse teaches surrender to the Divine as the highest refuge: the Lord is portrayed as creator, purifier, and mantra itself—implying that ethical life (dharma) is sustained by taking shelter in the sacred, cultivating purity, and recognizing the one divine reality behind multiple forms.
Vāyu is reciting a litany of divine epithets—praising the Lord through names that highlight power (thousand-armed), completeness, refuge-giving, cosmic creativity, purifying holiness, identification with the Gāyatrī mantra, the Vāmana incarnation among Aditi’s sons, and a form described as dark-and-tawny, suggestive (per the edition’s gloss) of Hari-Hara unity.