Shloka 32

Śiva-stavarāja: Upamanyu’s Preface and Initiation of the Śarva-Nāma Enumeration

Anuśāsana-parva 17

Devanagari script

जटी चर्मी शिखण्डी च सर्वाड्र: सर्वभावन: । हरश्न हरिणाक्षश्न सर्वभूतहर: प्रभु:

Transliteration

jaṭī carmī śikhaṇḍī ca sarvāḍraḥ sarvabhāvanaḥ | haraśna hariṇākṣaśna sarvabhūtaharaḥ prabhuḥ ||

Translation

ဝါယုက ဆို၏— «သူသည် ဇဋာဆံပင်ကို ချည်ထုံးထားသော တပသီ၊ အရေခွံဝတ်ဆင်သူ၊ ဆံတောင် (ရှိခာ) ကို ဆောင်သူ ဖြစ်၏။ သန့်ရှင်းသော အဘိသေကရည်ဖြင့် အမြဲစိုစွတ်နေသကဲ့သို့၊ လောကအားလုံးကို ပြုစုမွေးမြူသူလည်း ဖြစ်၏။ ဟရ (ရှီဝ) ထံ ပူဇော်သည့် အရာကိုလည်း၊ ဟရီ (ဝိෂ္ဏု) ထံ ပူဇော်သည့် အရာကိုလည်း စားသုံးလက်ခံသူ ဖြစ်၏။ ကာလအဆုံး၌ သတ္တဝါအားလုံးကို ပြန်လည်ရုပ်သိမ်းယူသည့် အာဏာရှင်သခင်တော် ဖြစ်၏»။

Word by Word

• जटी: matted-haired
• जटी: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: जटिन्
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• चर्मी: wearing a hide/skin
• चर्मी: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: चर्मिन्
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• शिखण्डी: crested; wearing a topknot/crest
• शिखण्डी: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: शिखण्डिन्
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• च: and
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: च

• सर्वाद्रः: having all mountains (as his form); all-mountain-like
• सर्वाद्रः: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: सर्वाद्र
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• सर्वभावनः: the nourisher/producer of all
• सर्वभावनः: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: सर्वभावन
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• हरश्नः: destroyer (epithet of Hara/Śiva)
• हरश्नः: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: हरश्न
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• हरिणाक्षश्नः: slayer of the deer-eyed one (epithet; lit. 'deer-eyed-slayer')
• हरिणाक्षश्नः: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: हरिणाक्षश्न
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• सर्वभूतहरः: destroyer/remover of all beings
• सर्वभूतहरः: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: सर्वभूतहर
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• प्रभुः: the Lord, master
• प्रभुः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: प्रभु
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

Speaker

वायुदेव उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Vāyu (Vāyudeva)
• Hara (Śiva)
• Hari (Viṣṇu)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse presents a theological vision of the Supreme as both ascetic and cosmic ruler—one who sustains all beings yet also withdraws them at the end—while implying a unifying reverence that encompasses both Hara (Śiva) and Hari (Viṣṇu).

What is happening in the narrative?

Vāyu is describing the Lord through a string of epithets: outward marks of asceticism (matted hair, hide-garment, crest) alongside cosmic functions (universal nourishment and final withdrawal), and he frames the deity as one who ‘consumes’ offerings associated with both Śiva and Viṣṇu.