Shloka 30
पुण्यं त्रिलोकविख्यातं सर्वपापहरं शिवम् | हिमवानू् पर्वतश्चैव दिव्यौषधिसमन्वित:
bhīṣma uvāca | puṇyaṃ trilokavikhyātaṃ sarvapāpaharaṃ śivam | himavān parvataś caiva divyauṣadhisamanvitaḥ ||
भीष्म बोले—त्रिलोक में विख्यात, पुण्य, सर्वपापहर और कल्याणस्वरूप ‘शिव’ का स्मरण हो; और दिव्य औषधियों से युक्त हिमवान् पर्वत का भी। इनका स्मरण और वन्दन धर्माश्रित मङ्गल है—जो शुद्धि देता है, रक्षा करता है और पाप-ताप का नाश करता है।
भीष्म उवाच
Educational Q&A
Remembering and invoking what is universally ‘auspicious’ (śiva) and morally purifying (sarva-pāpa-hara) is presented as a means of cleansing wrongdoing and securing protection; sacred realities—both divine (Śiva/auspiciousness) and terrestrial (the Himalaya)—are treated as supports for dharmic life.
Bhishma is in the midst of an enumerative, protective discourse (rakṣā/śānti-like invocation) in which holy powers and sacred places are praised and called upon; this verse highlights the sin-destroying auspicious principle and the sanctity of the Himalaya as part of that larger recitation.