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Shloka 23

Bhīṣma’s Śara-śayyā Stuti to Vāsudeva and Yogic Preparation for Dehotsarga

Body-Relinquishment

हरिं सहस्रशिरसं सहस्नचरणेक्षणम्‌

hariṃ sahasraśirasaṃ sahasracaraṇekṣaṇam

Бхишма говорит: «(Я созерцаю) Хари — всепроникающего Владыку, — которого воображают тысячеглавым и наделённым бесчисленными стопами и очами». Это поэтическое утверждение всеприсутствия Божественного и его царственного ведения обо всех существах и всех деяниях.

हरिम्Hari (Vishnu)
हरिम्:
Karma
TypeNoun
Rootहरि
FormMasculine, Accusative, Singular
सहस्रशिरसम्having a thousand heads
सहस्रशिरसम्:
Karma
TypeAdjective
Rootसहस्र-शिरस्
FormMasculine, Accusative, Singular
सहस्रचरणेक्षणम्having a thousand feet and eyes
सहस्रचरणेक्षणम्:
Karma
TypeAdjective
Rootसहस्र-चरण-ईक्षण
FormMasculine, Accusative, Singular

भीष्म उवाच

B
Bhīṣma
H
Hari (Viṣṇu)

Educational Q&A

The verse teaches reverent contemplation of the Divine as omnipresent and all-seeing: describing Hari with innumerable heads, feet, and eyes underscores that no action is outside divine awareness, encouraging ethical self-restraint and dharmic conduct.

In Śānti Parva, Bhīṣma instructs Yudhiṣṭhira on dharma and right living; here he invokes Hari in exalted, cosmic imagery as part of a devotional or contemplative framing for moral instruction.