Shloka 25
नन्दी श्वरो महाकायो ग्रामणीर्वृषभध्वज: । ईश्वरा: सर्वलोकानां गणेश्व॒रविनायका:
nandīśvaro mahākāyo grāmaṇī vṛṣabhadhvajaḥ | īśvarāḥ sarvalokānāṃ gaṇeśvaravināyakāḥ, kīrtayan prayataḥ sarvān sarvapāpaiḥ pramucyate |
नन्दीश्वर, महाकाय, ग्रामणी, वृषभध्वज—समस्त लोकों के ईश्वर, गणेश्वर और विनायक—इन सबका जो मनुष्य संयम और शुद्ध भाव से कीर्तन करता है, वह समस्त पापों से मुक्त हो जाता है।
भीष्म उवाच
Educational Q&A
Disciplined and sincere recitation of divine names (especially Śiva and associated powers) is presented as a means of ethical purification—freeing a person from accumulated wrongdoing and strengthening commitment to dharma.
In Bhīṣma’s instruction (Anuśāsana Parva), he enumerates revered names/epithets connected with Śiva and his hosts, stating that a person who praises them with restraint and purity becomes liberated from all sins.