Shloka 35

Devanagari script

गाड़ेयं वार्युपस्पृश्य प्राणायामेन तस्थिवान्‌ । शुचि: प्रयतवाग भूत्वा स्तोत्रमारब्धवांस्तत:,गंगाजलका आचमन करके पवित्र हो वाणीको वशमें रखकर तथा प्राणायामपूर्वक स्थित रहकर उन्होंने पूर्वोक्त अष्टोत्तरशतनामात्मक स्तोत्रका जप किया

Transliteration

gāṅgeyaṃ vāry upaspṛśya prāṇāyāmena tasthivān | śuciḥ prayatavāg bhūtvā stotram ārabdhavāṃs tataḥ ||

Translation

Vaiśampāyana said: Having sipped the waters of the Gaṅgā and thus purified himself, he stood composed in the discipline of breath-control. With speech restrained and mind made clean, he then began the recitation of the hymn—an ethical picture of inner and outer purification preceding sacred utterance and devotion.

Word by Word

गाङ्गेयंGāṅgeya (Bhīṣma)

वारिwater

उपस्पृश्यhaving sipped/touched (water) for purification

प्राणायामेनby breath-control (prāṇāyāma)

तस्थिवान्having stood/remained (stationed)

शुचिःpure

प्रयतवाक्with restrained speech

भूत्वाhaving become

स्तोत्रम्hymn

आरब्धवान्having begun/undertaken

ततःthen/thereupon

Speaker

वैशम्पायन उवाच

Characters & Entities

Vaiśampāyana

Gaṅgā (river)

Gaṅgā water (object of ācamana)

stotra (hymn)

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Geographic Context

Cross References

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

Sacred speech and devotion are to be preceded by inner and outer discipline: purification (ācamana), breath-control (prāṇāyāma), and restraint of speech (prayatavāk). The verse models dharmic preparation before recitation.

What is happening in the narrative?

The person being described performs ritual sipping of Gaṅgā water, steadies himself with prāṇāyāma, restrains his speech, and then begins a hymn of praise (identified in the surrounding context as an aṣṭottara-śata-nāma type stotra).