Shloka 84

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

Anuśāsana-parva 17

Devanagari script

स्वस्तिद: स्वस्तिभावश्च भागी भागकरो लघु: । उत्सड्रश्न महाड़श्व महागर्भपरायण:

Transliteration

svastidaḥ svastibhāvaś ca bhāgī bhāgakaro laghuḥ | utsaḍraśna mahāḍaśva mahāgarbhaparāyaṇaḥ ||

Translation

ဝါယုဒေဝက မိန့်တော်မူသည်– «သူသည် ကောင်းကျိုးပေးသူ၊ မင်္ဂလာ၏ အနှစ်သာရ ဖြစ်၏။ ယဇ်ပူဇော်ပွဲ၌ မိမိ၏ အခွင့်အရေးအပိုင်းကို ခံယူသူလည်း ဖြစ်ပြီး၊ ယဇ်၏ အာဟုတိများကို ခွဲဝေပေးသူလည်း ဖြစ်၏။ လုပ်ဆောင်ရာ၌ လျင်မြန်သူ၊ တွယ်ကပ်မှုကင်းသူ၊ အင်္ဂါအဝင်ကြီးမား၍ အင်အားကြီးသူ၊ ဟိရဏ္ယဂರ್ಭ (ကမ္ဘာဓာတ်ရင်းမြစ်) ၏ အမြင့်ဆုံး အားကိုးရာ ဖြစ်၏»။

Word by Word

• स्वस्तिदः: giver of welfare/auspiciousness
• स्वस्तिदः: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: स्वस्ति-द (प्रातिपदिक: स्वस्तिद)
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• स्वस्तिभावः: state/nature of auspiciousness
• स्वस्तिभावः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: स्वस्ति-भाव (प्रातिपदिक: स्वस्तिभाव)
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

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

• भागी: a sharer/participant (one who has a share)
• भागी: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: भागिन् (प्रातिपदिक: भागिन्)
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• भागकरः: maker/distributor of shares
• भागकरः: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: भाग-कर (प्रातिपदिक: भागकर)
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• लघुः: swift/quick-acting (also: light)
• लघुः: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: लघु (प्रातिपदिक: लघु)
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• उत्सङ्गरहितः: free from attachment/clinging (lit. devoid of lap/embrace)
• उत्सङ्गरहितः: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: उत्सङ्ग-रहित (प्रातिपदिक: उत्सङ्गरहित)
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• महाङ्गः: great-limbed; having great limbs
• महाङ्गः: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: महत्-अङ्ग (प्रातिपदिक: महाङ्ग)
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• महाश्वः: having great horses / great as a horse (epithet)
• महाश्वः: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: महत्-अश्व (प्रातिपदिक: महाश्व)
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• महागर्भपरायणः: having the Supreme Refuge in the Great Womb (Hiraṇyagarbha) / devoted to Hiraṇyagarbha
• महागर्भपरायणः: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: महा-गर्भ-परायण (प्रातिपदिक: महागर्भपरायण)
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

Speaker

वायुदेव उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Vāyu (Vāyudeva)
• Hiraṇyagarbha

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse praises the Supreme as the source of auspiciousness and the inner regulator of sacrificial order: He both receives the rightful offering and ensures its proper distribution, while remaining swift, unbound by attachment, and the ultimate ground even of cosmic origination (Hiraṇyagarbha).

What is happening in the narrative?

Vāyu-deva is speaking a litany of divine names/attributes, describing the deity’s beneficent nature, role in yajña, and transcendent status as the supreme refuge behind creation.