Shloka 147

Devanagari script

दीक्षितो<दीक्षित: क्षान्तो दुर्दान्तो5दान्तनाशन: । चन्द्रावर्तों युगावर्त: संवर्त: सम्प्रवर्तक:,दीक्षित (यज्ञकी दीक्षा लेनेवाले), अदीक्षित, क्षमावान्‌, दुर्दान्त, उद्दण्ड प्राणियोंका नाश करनेवाले, चन्द्रमाकी आवृत्ति करनेवाले (मास), युगोंकी आवृत्ति करनेवाले (कल्प), संवर्त (प्रलय) तथा सम्प्रवर्तक (पुन: सृष्टि-संचालन करनेवाले) भी आप ही हैं

Transliteration

dīkṣito ’dīkṣitaḥ kṣānto durdānto ’dāntanāśanaḥ | candrāvarto yugāvartaḥ saṃvartaḥ sampravartakaḥ ||

Translation

ビーシュマは言った。「あなたは灌頂を受けた者であり、また受けぬ者でもある。忍耐の者であり、放縦と驕慢を滅ぼす制伏者である。あなたは月の巡りとして月々を量り、劫・時代の巡りとしてユガを量る。あなたはサンヴァルタ（大溶解）そのものであり、再び創造を動かし始める力である。このように主は、規律と抑制を司る道徳の統御者として、また時間・破壊・再生を調える宇宙の調整者として讃えられる。」

Word by Word

दीक्षितःinitiated (having taken consecration)

अदीक्षितःuninitiated

क्षान्तःforbearing, patient

दुर्दान्तःhard to tame, unrestrained

उद्दान्तनाशनःdestroyer of the unruly (hard-to-control beings)

चन्द्रावर्तःthe lunar cycle (month)

युगावर्तःthe cycle of yugas (aeons)

संवर्तःdissolution, cosmic retraction (pralaya)

सम्प्रवर्तकःinitiator, one who sets in motion (again)

Speaker

भीष्म उवाच

Characters & Entities

Bhīṣma

the Supreme Lord (addressed as 'You')

Candra (Moon)

Yuga

Saṃvarta (cosmic dissolution/pralaya)

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

War Context

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Geographic Context

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse teaches that the divine encompasses and governs both ethical discipline (patience, restraint, the destruction of arrogance) and cosmic law (the cycles of month and yuga, dissolution and renewed creation). Dharma is thus rooted in a single supreme order that operates in personal conduct and in the universe.

What is happening in the narrative?

In Śānti Parva, Bhīṣma instructs Yudhiṣṭhira and offers hymnic praise describing the Lord through epithets. Here he lists names that portray the Lord as both the enforcer of moral restraint and the regulator of cosmic time—moon-cycle, age-cycle, dissolution, and the restarting of creation.