Shloka 85
Śiva-stavarāja: Upamanyu’s Preface and Initiation of the Śarva-Nāma Enumeration
Anuśāsana-parva 17
कृष्णवर्ण: सुवर्णश्व इन्द्रियं सर्वदेहिनाम् । महापादो महाहस्तो महाकायो महायशा:
kṛṣṇavarṇaḥ suvarṇaśva indriyaṁ sarvadehinām | mahāpādo mahāhasto mahākāyo mahāyaśāḥ ||
風神ヴァーユは言った。「彼は暗き色を帯び、黄金の駿馬を従える。彼は一切の有身の者における感覚と認識の力そのものである。歩みは広大、手は剛力。姿は無量にして、名声は偉大である。」
वायुदेव उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse presents the deity (under Viṣṇu-like epithets) as both transcendent and immanent: not only mighty and cosmic in form, but also present within all beings as the very power of the senses. Ethically, it supports reverence for the divine as the inner regulator of embodied life, encouraging humility and disciplined conduct.
Vāyu is speaking in praise, listing identifying marks and greatness of the divine figure—dark-hued, associated with golden steeds, vast-striding (Trivikrama-like), mighty-armed, cosmic-bodied, and renowned—framing the subject as worthy of worship and contemplation.