Shloka 45

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

Devanagari script

माया होषा मया सृष्टा यन्मां पश्यसि नारद

Transliteration

māyā hoṣā mayā sṛṣṭā yan māṃ paśyasi nārada

Translation

નારદ! તું જે ‘મને’ જુએ છે, તે મારી જ સર્જેલી માયા છે.

Word by Word

• माया: illusion, māyā
• माया: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: माया (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Feminine, Nominative, Singular

• ह: indeed, surely
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: ह (अव्यय)

• उषा: dawn (Uṣā)
• उषा: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: उषा (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Feminine, Nominative, Singular

• मया: by me
• मया: Karana
• Type: Noun
• Root: अस्मद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: —, Instrumental, Singular

• सृष्टा: created
• Type: Adjective
• Root: सृज् (धातु) → सृष्ट (कृदन्त-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Feminine, Nominative, Singular

• यत्: that which
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: यद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)

• माम्: me
• माम्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: अस्मद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: —, Accusative, Singular

• पश्यसि: you see
• Type: Verb
• Root: पश् (धातु)
• Form: Present (लट्), Second, Singular, Parasmaipada

• नारद: O Nārada
• Type: Noun
• Root: नारद (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Masculine, Vocative, Singular

Speaker

भीष्म उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Bhīṣma
• Nārada
• māyā

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

That what is perceived may be a constructed appearance (māyā), and that ethical and spiritual understanding requires discrimination between surface perception and underlying reality.

What is happening in the narrative?

Bhīṣma addresses the sage Nārada and explains that the form or presence being perceived is not the ultimate reality of ‘me’ but an appearance he has manifested—highlighting the theme of illusion and the limits of ordinary seeing.