Shloka 22

Guru’s Instruction on Dream, Mind, Guṇas, and Knowing Brahman

Svapna–Manas–Guṇa–Brahma-vicāra

Devanagari script

विननाद महानादं क्षोभयन्‌ दैत्यदानवान्‌ | संनादिता येन लोका: सर्वाश्वैव दिशो दश

Transliteration

vinanāda mahānādaṁ kṣobhayann daityadānavān | saṁnāditā yena lokāḥ sarvāś caiva diśo daśa ||

Translation

विननाद महानादं क्षोभयन् दैत्यदानवान् । संनादिता येन लोका: सर्वाश्चैव दिशो दश ॥

Word by Word

• {'vinanāda': 'roared, sounded loudly (intensive of √nad, ‘to sound’)', 'mahānādam': 'a great roar

• mighty sound', 'kṣobhayann': 'agitating, throwing into turmoil, shaking (causative participle of √kṣubh)', 'daitya': 'Daitya

• a class of demons, often adversaries of the gods', 'dānava': 'Dānava

• another class of demons, often paired with Daityas', 'saṁnāditāḥ': 'made to resound

• reverberated', 'yena': 'by which (instrumental relative pronoun)', 'lokāḥ': 'worlds

• realms of beings', 'sarvāḥ': 'all (feminine plural

• here qualifying ‘diśaḥ’)', 'ca eva': 'and indeed, and also (emphatic conjunction)', 'diśaḥ': 'directions, quarters', 'daśa': 'ten'}

Speaker

भीष्म उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Bhishma
• Daityas
• Dānavas
• Lokas (the worlds)
• Daśa diśaḥ (ten directions)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

When adharma becomes disruptive, dharma may be upheld not only through counsel but also through decisive, awe-inspiring assertion of rightful order; the verse symbolizes the moral universe responding to divine authority that restrains destructive forces.

What is happening in the narrative?

A supremely powerful being roars with tremendous force, causing the demon hosts (Daityas and Dānavas) to tremble and making all the worlds and the ten directions reverberate with the sound.