Anushasana Parva Adhyaya 100 Shloka 22 - Mahabharata | Sanskrit | Vedapath

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Shloka 22

Devanagari script

श्वभ्यश्न श्वपचेभ्यश्व वयोभ्यश्वावपेद्‌ भुवि । वैश्वदेवं हि नामैतत्‌ सायंप्रातर्विधीयते

Transliteration

śvabhyaśna śvapacebhyaśva vayobhyaśvāvaped bhuvi | vaiśvadevaṃ hi nāmaitat sāyaṃprātar vidhīyate

Translation

वायुरुवाच— श्वभ्यः श्वपचेभ्यश्च वयोभ्यश्च भुवि अन्नं निक्षिपेत्। एतद् वै वैश्वदेवं नाम सायंप्रातर्विधीयते॥

Word by Word

श्वभ्यःto dogs

अश्नeat (you should partake)

श्वपचेभ्यःto dog-cookers (outcastes)

अश्वेभ्यःto horses

वयोभ्यःto birds

अश्वावत्likewise / similarly

अपेत्should go/should be placed (away)

भुविon the ground

वैश्वदेवम्the Vaiśvadeva offering

हिindeed/for

नामby name / called

एतत्this

सायंप्रातर्in the evening and in the morning

विधीयतेis prescribed / is enjoined

Speaker

वायुदेव उवाच

Characters & Entities

Vāyu (Vāyudeva)

dogs

śvapacas

birds

Vaiśvadeva (rite)

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Geographic Context

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

Daily dharma includes sharing food beyond one’s household—offering portions to animals and even marginalized humans—framed as the Vaiśvadeva rite performed morning and evening.

What is happening in the narrative?

Vāyu instructs about a prescribed daily practice: placing food on the ground as an offering for dogs, śvapacas, and birds, identifying this act as the Vaiśvadeva observance done twice daily.