Shloka 33
प्रतिग्रहभेदः — The Distinction between Giving and Accepting
Vṛṣādarbhī–Saptarṣi Dialogue
सत्रजो वज्री वरी चैव विश्वेदेवा: सनातना: । विद्युद्वर्चा: सोमवर्चा: सूर्यश्रीक्षेति नामत:
satrajo vajrī varī caiva viśvedevāḥ sanātanāḥ | vidyudvarcāḥ somavarcāḥ sūryaśrīkṣeti nāmataḥ ||
ഭീഷ്മൻ പറഞ്ഞു—ഇവർ സനാതന വിശ്വേദേവന്മാർ; സത്രജ, വജ്രീ, വരീ, വിദ്യുദ്വർച്ചാ, സോമവർച്ചാ, സൂര്യശ്രീക്ഷ എന്നിങ്ങനെ പേരുകളാൽ അറിയപ്പെടുന്നു.
भीष्म उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse emphasizes the traditional practice of preserving and reciting sacred lineages of divine names. In the Anuśāsana context, such naming serves as a form of reverent remembrance and a way to situate ethical instruction within a larger sacred cosmology.
Bhīṣma, in his instructional discourse, enumerates a set of the Viśvedevas and states their names. The passage functions as a catalog within a broader teaching section, identifying these deities explicitly ‘by name’.