Shloka 37
प्रत्यक्षदर्शी सर्वस्य नारदो5यं महातपा: । माहात्म्यस्य तदा विष्णो: सो5यं चक्रगदाधर:
pratyakṣadarśī sarvasya nārado ’yaṃ mahātapāḥ | māhātmyasya tadā viṣṇoḥ so ’yaṃ cakragadādharaḥ ||
Kaṇva dit : « Ce Nārada, grand ascète, est le témoin direct de toute chose. Et celui-ci, ici—qui porte le disque et la massue—c’est Viṣṇu lui-même, dont on célébrait alors la grandeur. »
कण्व उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse emphasizes reliable moral and spiritual authority: Nārada is presented as an all-seeing eyewitness, and Viṣṇu (identified by the emblems of discus and mace) is affirmed as the supreme divine presence whose greatness grounds dharmic understanding.
Kaṇva identifies the figures before him: he points out Nārada as a trustworthy witness to events and recognizes the other figure as Viṣṇu, marked by the cakra and gadā, linking the ongoing discussion to Viṣṇu’s acknowledged majesty.