Anushasana Parva Adhyaya 17 Shloka 37 - Mahabharata | Kannada | Vedapath

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Shloka 37

Śiva-stavarāja: Upamanyu’s Preface and Initiation of the Śarva-Nāma Enumeration

Anuśāsana-parva 17

Devanagari script

सर्वकर्मा स्वयम्भूत आदिरादिकरो निधि: । सहस्राक्षो विशालाक्ष: सोमो नक्षत्रसाधक:

Transliteration

sarvakarmā svayambhūta ādir ādikaro nidhiḥ | sahasrākṣo viśālākṣaḥ somo nakṣatrasādhakaḥ ||

Translation

ವಾಯುದೇವನು ಹೇಳಿದನು— ಅವನು ಸರ್ವಕರ್ಮಕರ್ತ, ಸ್ವಯಂಭೂ, ನಿತ್ಯಸಿದ್ಧ; ಆದಿಗಳಲ್ಲಿಯೂ ಆದಿ, ಮೊದಲ ಆರಂಭ. ಅವನು ಆದಿಕರ—ಪ್ರಥಮ ಮೂಲವನ್ನು ಪ್ರಕಟಿಸುವವನು—ಮತ್ತು ಅಕ್ಷಯ ಐಶ್ವರ್ಯದ ನಿಧಿ. ಅವನು ಸಹಸ್ರಾಕ್ಷ, ವಿಶಾಲಾಕ್ಷ; ಅವನು ಸೋಮ—ಚಂದ್ರಸ್ವರೂಪ—ಮತ್ತು ನಕ್ಷತ್ರಗಳ ಧಾರಕ ಹಾಗೂ ನಿಯಂತಾ.

Word by Word

सर्वकर्माone whose activity is everything; all-doer

स्वयम्भूतःself-existent; self-born

आदिःthe beginning; the first

आदिकरःcreator of the beginning; originator

निधिःtreasure; storehouse

सहस्राक्षःthousand-eyed

विशालाक्षःlarge-eyed; wide-eyed

सोमःSoma; the Moon

नक्षत्रसाधकःone who accomplishes/ordains the stars (nakshatras)

Speaker

वायुदेव उवाच

Characters & Entities

Vāyu (Wind-god)

Soma (Moon)

Nakṣatras (stars/lunar mansions)

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse teaches reverent recognition of the divine as the all-pervading governor of action and cosmic order—self-existent, originative, all-seeing, and sustaining the rhythms of time and the heavens (moon and stars). Ethically, it frames dharma as alignment with a stable, beneficent universal order upheld by the divine.

What is happening in the narrative?

Vāyu is delivering a hymn of praise, listing epithets that describe the deity’s cosmic functions—creation/origination, inexhaustible power, omniscient vision, and celestial regulation through Soma and the nakṣatras—within the Anuśāsana Parva’s broader didactic setting.