Shloka 125
Śiva-stavarāja: Upamanyu’s Preface and Initiation of the Śarva-Nāma Enumeration
Anuśāsana-parva 17
आरोहणो<5घिरोहश्न शीलधारी महायशा: । सेनाकल्पो महाकल्पो योगो युगकरो हरि:
ārohaṇo ’dhirōhaś ca śīladhārī mahāyaśāḥ | senākalpo mahākalpo yogo yugakaro hariḥ ||
Vāyu-deva berkata: “Ia adalah Ascent—gerbang untuk naik ke keadaan tertinggi; dan Ia pula Sang Yang telah mencapai kedudukan puncak itu. Berbudi luhur dan termasyhur, Ia menjadi perhiasan serta daya penata sebuah bala tentara, gemilang laksana perhiasan yang tak ternilai. Ia adalah Yoga itu sendiri—peredaman gelombang batin; Ia adalah pembentuk zaman, penggerak putaran yuga; dan Ia adalah Hari, penghapus duka para bhakta.”
वायुदेव उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse praises the Lord through ethical and spiritual epithets: He is both the path to the highest good and the one who has attained it; He embodies noble conduct, grants order and splendor in worldly life (even in armies and governance), is Yoga as inner restraint, governs cosmic time as the initiator of yugas, and compassionately removes devotees’ suffering.
In Anuśāsana Parva’s devotional-didactic setting, Vāyudeva speaks a sequence of divine names/attributes, extolling Hari (Viṣṇu/Kṛṣṇa) by describing His roles in liberation, moral excellence, worldly order, yogic discipline, and cosmic governance.