Shloka 9
Pitṛ-śrāddha-haviḥ-phala-nirdeśa
Offerings for Ancestors and Their Stated Results
तद् वै सर्वानतिक्रम्य देवदानवराक्षसान् | मानुषानथ गन्धर्वान् नागानथ च पक्षिण:
tad vai sarvān atikramya devadānavarākṣasān | mānuṣān atha gandharvān nāgān atha ca pakṣiṇaḥ ||
ಭೀಷ್ಮನು ಹೇಳಿದರು— “ಅವನು ದೇವರುಗಳು, ದಾನವರು, ರಾಕ್ಷಸರು, ಮಾನವರು, ಗಂಧರ್ವರು, ನಾಗರು ಹಾಗೂ ಪಕ್ಷಿಗಳು— ಎಲ್ಲರನ್ನೂ ಮೀರಿಸಿ— ತನ್ನ ಅಮೋಘ ಅಸ್ತ್ರಬಲದಿಂದ ನಿಮಗೆ ಭಯ ಹುಟ್ಟಿಸಿದ ಆ ಅಸುರನನ್ನು ವಧಿಸುವನು; ಇತರ ದೇವಶತ್ರುಗಳನ್ನೂ ಸಂಹರಿಸುವನು.”
भीष्म उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse emphasizes reassurance through righteous protection: a divinely empowered agent will transcend all classes of beings and remove the source of fear by destroying forces hostile to cosmic order (deva-śatru), implying that adharma is ultimately checked by dharmic power.
Bhishma is describing a powerful figure who will overcome every category of being—gods, demons, humans, and others—and will kill the particular Asura causing fear, along with other enemies of the gods.