Shloka 72

धर्मस्य बहुद्वारत्वम् — Nārada’s Audience with Indra (Śānti-parva 340)

Devanagari script

ततो भूयो जगत्‌ सर्व करिष्यामीह विद्यया । अस्मिन्‌ मूर्तिश्चतुर्थी या सासृजच्छेषमव्ययम्‌

Transliteration

tato bhūyo jagat sarva kariṣyāmīha vidyayā | asmin mūrtiś caturthī yā sā sṛjac cheṣam avyayam |

Translation

Bhīṣma dit : «Ensuite, de nouveau, par cette même puissance de connaissance sacrée, je ferai naître ici l’univers entier des êtres. Parmi mes quatre formes manifestées, la quatrième — Vāsudeva — engendra l’impérissable Śeṣa.»

Word by Word

• [{'term': 'tataḥ', 'definition': 'thereafter

• then'}, {'term': 'bhūyaḥ', 'definition': 'again

• once more'}, {'term': 'jagat', 'definition': 'the world

• the moving universe'}, {'term': 'sarvam', 'definition': 'all

• entire'}, {'term': 'kariṣyāmi', 'definition': 'I shall do/make/bring about'}, {'term': 'iha', 'definition': 'here

• in this context/realm'}, {'term': 'vidyayā', 'definition': 'by knowledge

• by sacred power/vidyā (instrumental)'}, {'term': 'asmin', 'definition': 'in this

• among these'}, {'term': 'mūrtiḥ', 'definition': 'form

• embodied aspect'}, {'term': 'caturthī', 'definition': 'the fourth'}, {'term': 'yā', 'definition': 'which

• who (relative pronoun, feminine)'}, {'term': 'sā', 'definition': 'she/that (referring to the fourth form)'}, {'term': 'sṛjat', 'definition': 'created

• brought forth (from √sṛj)'}, {'term': 'śeṣam', 'definition': 'Śeṣa (the cosmic serpent)

• also ‘remainder’ in general usage'}, {'term': 'avyayam', 'definition': 'imperishable

Speaker

भीष्म उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Bhīṣma
• Vāsudeva
• Śeṣa

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

Creation is presented as proceeding through vidyā (a divine, ordering power of knowledge), and the Supreme is described as manifesting in multiple forms; among these, Vāsudeva is linked with the origination of the imperishable cosmic principle/personage Śeṣa.

What is happening in the narrative?

In Bhīṣma’s discourse to Yudhiṣṭhira in Śānti Parva, he recounts a cosmological sequence: after a prior phase, the speaker declares that the universe will be produced again through vidyā, and notes that the fourth manifestation, Vāsudeva, generated Śeṣa, described as imperishable.