Shloka 8
Adhyaya 73 — The Uttama Manvantara: Classes of Devas, Indra Sushanti, and the Royal Lineage
यस्योपसर्गनाशाय नामाक्षरविभूषिता ।
अद्यापि मानवैर्गाथा गीयते तु महीतले ॥
yasyopasarganāśāya nāmākṣaravibhūṣitā | adyāpi mānavair gāthā gīyate tu mahītale ||
त्याच्या नावाच्या अक्षरांनी शोभलेली, आपत्ती नाश करणारी गाथा आजही पृथ्वीवर मनुष्य गातात.
FAQs
Memory and recitation preserve dharma: the community’s continued singing of a protective gāthā shows how sacred history becomes living practice aimed at alleviating suffering.
Manvantara (with ancillary ritual practice): it arises within the Manvantara account and highlights how such accounts generate ongoing religious observances.
The emphasis on ‘syllables of the name’ reflects nāma-śakti: sound as a carrier of power, where ordered phonemes are treated as a vehicle for warding off disorder (upasarga).