Shloka 16

Devanagari script

योगो योगविदां नेता प्रधानपुरुषेश्वर: । नारसिंहवपु: श्रीमान्‌ केशव: पुरुषोत्तम:

Transliteration

yogo yogavidāṁ netā pradhāna-puruṣeśvaraḥ | nārasiṁha-vapuḥ śrīmān keśavaḥ puruṣottamaḥ ||

Translation

ဘီရှ္မက ဆို၏—သူသည် ယောဂ (Yoga) ကိုယ်တိုင်ဖြစ်၍ ယောဂကို အမှန်တကယ် သိသူတို့၏ ခေါင်းဆောင် ဖြစ်၏။ သူသည် ပရကృతి (Prakṛti) နှင့် ပုရုရှ (Puruṣa) တို့၏ အရှင် ဖြစ်၏။ သူသည် နရစിംဟ (Narasiṁha) ရုပ်သဏ္ဌာန်ကို ခံယူသော တောက်ပမြင့်မြတ်သူ ဖြစ်၏။ သူသည် Śrīmān—ရင်ဘတ်ပေါ်၌ Śrī ကို အမြဲတမ်း ဆောင်ထားသူ; ကေရှဝ (Keśava); နှင့် ပျက်စီးနိုင်သောအရာနှင့် မပျက်စီးနိုင်သောအရာ နှစ်မျိုးလုံးထက် မြင့်မြတ်သော ပုရုရှောတ္တမ (Puruṣottama) ဖြစ်၏။

Word by Word

• योगः: Yoga; the (supreme) means of union/discipline
• योगः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: योग
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• योगविदाम्: of the knowers of yoga
• योगविदाम्: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: योगविद्
• Form: Masculine, Genitive, Plural

• नेता: leader/guide
• नेता: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: नेतृ
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• प्रधानपुरुषेश्वरः: Lord of Pradhāna (Prakṛti) and Puruṣa
• प्रधानपुरुषेश्वरः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: प्रधान-पुरुष-ईश्वर
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• नारसिंहवपुः: one whose body/form is (like) man-and-lion (Narasimha-formed)
• नारसिंहवपुः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: नर-सिंह-वपुस्
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• श्रीमान्: splendid; possessing Śrī (Lakṣmī)
• श्रीमान्: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: श्रीमत्
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• केशवः: Keśava (epithet of Viṣṇu/Kṛṣṇa)
• केशवः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: केशव
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• पुरुषोत्तमः: the सर्वोत्तम Puruṣa; Supreme Person
• पुरुषोत्तमः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: पुरुष-उत्तम
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

Speaker

भीष्म उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Bhīṣma
• Keśava (Viṣṇu/Kṛṣṇa)
• Narasiṁha
• Śrī (Lakṣmī)
• Pradhāna (Prakṛti)
• Puruṣa

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse teaches that the Supreme Lord is both the goal and the guide of spiritual discipline: He is ‘Yoga’ (inner restraint and realization), the leader of yogic knowers, and the sovereign over both Prakṛti (nature) and Puruṣa (spirit). Ethically, it links dharma to self-mastery and devotion to the highest ruler who sustains cosmic and inner order.

What is happening in the narrative?

In Anuśāsana Parva, Bhīṣma instructs and praises the Supreme through a litany of divine names and attributes. Here he enumerates epithets of Keśava—highlighting His yogic guidance, metaphysical lordship, protective Narasiṁha form, and supreme status beyond the perishable and imperishable.