Shloka 80

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

Body-Relinquishment

Devanagari script

जटिने दण्डिने नित्यं लम्बोदरशरीरिणे । कमण्डलूनिषज्जय तस्मै ब्रह्मात्मने नम:

Transliteration

jaṭine daṇḍine nityaṁ lambodaraśarīriṇe | kamaṇḍalūniṣajjaya tasmai brahmātmane namaḥ ||

Translation

Бхишма приносит благоговейное приветствие Брахману-Самости, созерцаемому в облике аскета: с витыми прядями (джата), с посохом в руке, с телом с отвислым животом, с водяным сосудом (камандалу) и сиденьем подвижника.

Word by Word

• जटिने: to the matted-haired one
• जटिने: Sampradana
• Type: Noun
• Root: जटिन्
• Form: Masculine, Dative, Singular

• दण्डिने: to the staff-bearer
• दण्डिने: Sampradana
• Type: Noun
• Root: दण्डिन्
• Form: Masculine, Dative, Singular

• नित्यम्: always
• नित्यम्: Adhikarana
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: नित्य

• लम्बोदर-शरीरिणे: to the one having a body with a pendulous belly
• लम्बोदर-शरीरिणे: Sampradana
• Type: Noun
• Root: शरीरिन्
• Form: Masculine, Dative, Singular

• कमण्डलु-निषज्जय: to the one furnished/associated with a water-pot (kamaṇḍalu)
• कमण्डलु-निषज्जय: Sampradana
• Type: Noun
• Root: निषज्जय
• Form: Masculine, Dative, Singular

• तस्मै: to him
• तस्मै: Sampradana
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: तद्
• Form: Masculine/Neuter, Dative, Singular

• ब्रह्म-आत्मने: to him whose self is Brahman / the Brahman-souled one
• ब्रह्म-आत्मने: Sampradana
• Type: Noun
• Root: आत्मन्
• Form: Masculine, Dative, Singular

• नमः: salutation
• नमः: Karma
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: नमस्

Speaker

भीष्म उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Bhīṣma
• Brahman (brahma)
• Ascetic/renunciant (jaṭin, daṇḍin)
• Daṇḍa (staff)
• Kamaṇḍalu (water-pot)
• Niṣajjā (seat)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

Reverence is directed to the Brahman-Self, expressed through the ideal of renunciation: disciplined restraint (daṇḍa), simplicity (kamaṇḍalu, seat), and the ascetic identity (jaṭā). The ethical thrust is that inner realization and self-control are central to dharma.

What is happening in the narrative?

In Śānti Parva, Bhīṣma instructs on dharma and higher aims; here he utters a salutation (namaḥ) to the Brahman-Self, describing it in the recognizable form of an ascetic, thereby linking metaphysical truth with the lived discipline of renunciation.