Shloka 72

Devanagari script

वेधा: स्वाड्रोडजित: कृष्णो दृढ: सड्कर्षणो<च्युत: । वरुणो वारुणो वृक्ष: पुष्कराक्षो महामना:

Transliteration

vedhāḥ svāḍro 'jitaḥ kṛṣṇo dṛḍhaḥ saṅkarṣaṇo 'cyutaḥ | varuṇo vāruṇo vṛkṣaḥ puṣkarākṣo mahāmanāḥ ||

Translation

ဘီရှ္မက မိန့်ကြားသည်—သူသည် ဝေဓာ (အမိန့်တော်ချမှတ်သူ)၊ သ္ဝာဍြ (အလုပ်အားလုံးကို ကိုယ်တိုင်ပြည့်စုံစေသူ)၊ အဇိတ (မအနိုင်ယူနိုင်သူ)၊ ကృష్ణ (အမဲရောင်သခင်)၊ ဒృဍ္ဍ (မလှုပ်မယှက် ခိုင်မာသူ)၊ သင်္ကర్షဏ (ပျက်သုဉ်းချိန်၌ သတ္တဝါအားလုံးကို စုဆောင်းဆွဲယူသူ) နှင့် အချျုတ (မကျဆုံးသူ) ဖြစ်၏။ ထို့ပြင် သူသည် ဝရုဏ (ရေ၏ အရှင်)၊ ဝါရုဏ (ဝရုဏမှ ဆင်းသက်သူ)၊ ဝೃက္ษ (သန့်ရှင်းသော သစ်ပင်)၊ ပုಷ్కရာက္ษ (ကြာပန်းမျက်လုံးရှိသူ) နှင့် မဟာမနာ (အကြီးမားဆုံး အလိုတော်ရှိသူ) ဖြစ်၏။

Word by Word

• वेधाः: the ordainer/creator
• वेधाः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: वेधस्/वेधा (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• स्वाड्रुः: self-sufficient helper/one who aids by himself
• स्वाड्रुः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: स्वाड्रु (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• अजितः: unconquered
• अजितः: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: अजित (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• कृष्णः: Krishna
• कृष्णः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: कृष्ण (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• दृढः: firm/steadfast
• दृढः: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: दृढ (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• सङ्कर्षणः: Sankarshana (Balarama/one who draws together)
• सङ्कर्षणः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: सङ्कर्षण (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• अच्युतः: Achyuta (the infallible one)
• अच्युतः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: अच्युत (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• वरुणः: Varuna
• वरुणः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: वरुण (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• वारुणः: of Varuna/Varuna-born
• वारुणः: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: वारुण (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• वृक्षः: tree
• वृक्षः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: वृक्ष (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• पुष्कराक्षः: lotus-eyed
• पुष्कराक्षः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: पुष्कराक्ष (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• महामनाः: great-minded
• महामनाः: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: महामनस् (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

Speaker

भीष्म उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Bhīṣma
• Kṛṣṇa
• Saṅkarṣaṇa (Balarāma)
• Varuṇa
• Vasiṣṭha (by traditional gloss on vāruṇa)
• Aśvattha (by traditional gloss on vṛkṣa)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse teaches contemplative devotion through divine epithets: the Supreme is portrayed as unconquerable, unwavering, and infallible, governing creation and dissolution while sustaining cosmic order. Remembering these names frames ethical life as alignment with a stable, righteous cosmic principle (ṛta/dharma).

What is happening in the narrative?

In Anuśāsana Parva, Bhīṣma instructs Yudhiṣṭhira on dharma and praises the Supreme through a sequence of names and attributes. This verse continues that litany, identifying the Lord with cosmic functions (ordination, dissolution), divine guardianship (Varuṇa), and auspicious iconography (lotus eyes, sacred tree).