Anushasana Parva Adhyaya 155 Shloka 90 - Mahabharata | Portuguese | Vedapath

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Shloka 90

Devanagari script

विश्वमूर्तिमहामूर्तिदीप्तमूर्तिरमूर्तिमान्‌ । अनेकमूर्तिरिव्यक्त: शतमूर्ति: शतानन:

Transliteration

viśvamūrtimahāmūrtidīptamūrtiramūrtimān | anekamūrtiravyaktaḥ śatamūrtiḥ śatānanaḥ ||

Translation

Bhīṣma disse: “Ele é Aquele cuja forma é o universo inteiro — o vasto Ser Cósmico; de forma incomensurável, de forma radiante e, ainda assim, sem forma. Embora assuma muitas formas para o bem dos seres, sua verdadeira natureza permanece além de toda expressão plena. É como se tivesse cem formas e cem faces — ilimitado em sua manifestação.”

Word by Word

विश्वमूर्तिःwhose form is the whole universe

महामूर्तिःof vast/great form

दीप्तमूर्तिःof radiant form

अमूर्तिमान्formless; having no (limited) form

अनेकमूर्तिःof many forms

इवas if; like

अव्यक्तःunmanifest; not expressible

शतमूर्तिःhaving a hundred forms

शताननःhaving a hundred faces

Speaker

भीष्म उवाच

Characters & Entities

Bhishma

The Supreme Lord (Vishnu/Narayana as cosmic form)

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

War Context

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Geographic Context

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse teaches the paradoxical fullness of the Divine: the Lord pervades the entire universe as a cosmic form, yet is ultimately formless and beyond complete description. Multiple manifestations (avatars and forms) are expressions of compassion and governance, not limitations of His true nature.

What is happening in the narrative?

Bhīṣma is praising and describing the Supreme Lord through a litany of epithets, emphasizing both immanence (as the universe itself) and transcendence (as the unmanifest), as part of a devotional-hymnic passage within Anuśāsana Parva.