Shloka 36

Devanagari script

बहुरूपाय विश्वस्य पतये मुछजवाससे । सहस्रशिरसे चैव सहस्रनयनाय च

Transliteration

bahurūpāya viśvasya pataye muñjāvāsase | sahasraśirase caiva sahasranayanāya ca ||

Translation

ဗျာသက မိန့်ကြားသည်– “(နမസ്കာရ) ကမ္ဘာလောက၏ အရှင်၊ အမျိုးမျိုးသော ရုပ်သဏ္ဌာန်ကို ခံယူတော်မူသောသူအား။ မုဉ္ဇမြက် (muñja) ကို ဝတ်ဆင်ထားသကဲ့သို့ အတပသင်္ကေတဖြင့် တန်ဆာဆင်သောသူအား။ ထောင်ခေါင်းရှိသောသူအား၊ ထောင်မျက်စိရှိသောသူအားလည်း (နမസ്കာရ)။”

Word by Word

बहुरूपायto the many-formed one

विश्वस्यof the universe

पतयेto the lord

मुचजवाससेto him whose garment is of muñja-grass

सहस्रशिरसेto the thousand-headed one

चand

एवindeed/also

सहस्रनयनायto the thousand-eyed one

चand

Speaker

व्यास उवाच

Characters & Entities

Vyāsa

Lord of the universe (cosmic deity, often identified with Viṣṇu/Nārāyaṇa or the all-pervading Supreme)

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

War Context

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse frames ethical vision through devotion: the Supreme is both many-formed (present in diverse beings and situations) and all-seeing (thousand-eyed), implying that actions in war and peace fall under a higher moral witness and cosmic order.

What is happening in the narrative?

Vyāsa introduces or continues a hymn of salutation, invoking the universal Lord with grand epithets—many-formed, ascetically clad, thousand-headed and thousand-eyed—setting a solemn, sacred tone amid the Drona Parva’s war narrative.