Shloka 33
गिरिशाय प्रशान्ताय यतये चीरवाससे । हिरण्यबाहवे राज्ञे उग्राय पतये दिशाम्,जो पर्वतपर शयन करनेवाले, परम शान्त, यतिस्वरूप, चीरवस्त्रधारी, हिरण्यबाहु (सोनेके आभूषणोंसे विभूषित बाँहवाले), राजा (दीप्तिमान), उग्र (भयंकर) तथा दिशाओंके अधिपति हैं, (उन भगवान् शंकरको नमस्कार है)
giriśāya praśāntāya yataye cīravāsase | hiraṇyabāhave rājñe ugrāya pataye diśām ||
ಗಿರೀಶನಿಗೆ, ಪರಮ ಪ್ರಶಾಂತನಿಗೆ, ಯತಿಸ್ವರೂಪನಿಗೆ ಮತ್ತು ಚೀರವಸ್ತ್ರಧಾರಿಯಿಗೆ; ಹಿರಣ್ಯಬಾಹುವಿಗೆ, ರಾಜಸ ತೇಜದಿಂದ ದೀಪ್ತನಾದ ರಾಜನಿಗೆ, ಉಗ್ರನಿಗೆ ಮತ್ತು ದಿಕ್ಕುಗಳ ಅಧಿಪತಿಗೆ ನಮಸ್ಕಾರ।
व्यास उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse teaches that true authority combines inner peace and ascetic restraint with the capacity to protect and govern: Śiva is both tranquil renunciant and formidable sovereign. In a war narrative, this models ethical steadiness—seeking refuge in a higher order that unites self-control with righteous power.
Vyāsa speaks an invocatory praise, saluting Śiva through a chain of epithets. Such a stuti functions as a solemn framing device in the Drona Parva’s tense war setting, invoking divine guardianship and moral orientation before or amid consequential events.