Shloka 69

Devanagari script

अजो महार्ह: स्वाभाव्यो जितामित्र: प्रमोदन: । आनन्दो नन्दनो नन्द: सत्यधर्मा त्रिविक्रम:

Transliteration

ajo mahārhaḥ svābhāvyo jitāmitraḥ pramodanaḥ | ānando nandano nandaḥ satyadharmā trivikramaḥ ||

Translation

ဘီရှ္မက မိန့်ကြားသည်—သူသည် အဇ (မမွေးဖွားသူ) ဖြစ်၏။ မဟာရ္ဟ (အမြင့်မြတ်ဆုံး ပူဇော်ထိုက်သူ) ဖြစ်၏။ သ္ဝာဘာဝျ (ကိုယ်တိုင်တည်ရှိ၍ အစဉ်ပြည့်စုံသူ) ဖြစ်၏။ ဇိတာမိတ္ရ (ရန်သူတို့ကို အနိုင်ယူသူ) ဖြစ်၏။ ပရမောဒန (အမှတ်ရရုံဖြင့်ပင် စိတ်ကို ပျော်ရွှင်စေသူ) ဖြစ်၏။ ထို့ပြင် သူသည် အာနန္ဒ (အပျော်အပါး၏ အရင်းအမြစ်)၊ နန္ဒန (အားလုံးကို ပျော်ရွှင်စေသူ)၊ နန္ဒ (စည်းစိမ်နှင့် အာဏာပြည့်စုံသူ)၊ သတ္ယဓမ္မာ (အမှန်တရားနှင့် ဓမ္မတရားကို သဘာဝအဖြစ်ထားသူ)၊ နှင့် တြိဝိက్రమ (ခြေလှမ်းသုံးလှမ်းဖြင့် လောကသုံးပါးကို တိုင်းတာသူ) ဖြစ်၏။

Word by Word

• अजः: the Unborn (Vishnu)
• अजः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: अज (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• महार्हः: most worthy of worship/honor
• महार्हः: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: महार्ह (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• स्वाभाव्यः: natural; inherent (by nature)
• स्वाभाव्यः: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: स्वाभाव्य (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• जितामित्रः: one who has conquered enemies
• जितामित्रः: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: जितामित्र (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• प्रमोदनः: one who causes delight
• प्रमोदनः: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: प्रमोदन (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• आनन्दः: bliss; the Blissful one
• आनन्दः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: आनन्द (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• नन्दनः: one who gladdens
• नन्दनः: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: नन्दन (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• नन्दः: joy; the Joyful one
• नन्दः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: नन्द (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• सत्यधर्मा: whose dharma is truth; truly righteous
• सत्यधर्मा: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: सत्यधर्मन् (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• त्रिविक्रमः: Trivikrama (who strode the three worlds in three steps)
• त्रिविक्रमः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: त्रिविक्रम (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

Speaker

भीष्म उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Bhīṣma
• Viṣṇu
• Trivikrama (Vāmana episode)
• three worlds (trailokya)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse teaches devotion grounded in ethics: the Supreme is unborn and self-established, yet actively protects dharma by overcoming hostile forces; remembering such a Lord brings inner joy, and His nature is truth and righteousness.

What is happening in the narrative?

Bhīṣma is reciting divine epithets (a stuti-like sequence) describing Viṣṇu’s qualities and deeds—especially the Trivikrama act of measuring the three worlds—within the Anuśāsana Parva’s instruction on dharma and worship.