Shloka 213

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

Body-Relinquishment

Devanagari script

गुणभूतानि भूतेशे सूत्रे मणिगणा इव । उन्हींमें सम्पूर्ण प्राणी स्थित हैं और उन्हींमें उनका लय होता है। जैसे डोरेमें मनके पिरोये होते हैं, उसी प्रकार उन भूतेश्वर परमात्मामें समस्त त्रिगुणात्मक भूत पिरोये हुए हैं

Transliteration

bhīṣma uvāca | guṇabhūtāni bhūteśe sūtre maṇigaṇā iva |

Translation

गुणभूतानि भूतेशे सूत्रे मणिगणा इव। तस्मिन्सर्वाणि भूतानि स्थितानि तस्मिन्नेव च लीयन्ते॥

Word by Word

• गुणभूतानि: having become subordinate/secondary (as qualities)
• गुणभूतानि: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: गुणभूत
• Form: Neuter, Nominative, Plural

• भूतेशे: in the Lord of beings
• भूतेशे: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: भूतेश
• Form: Masculine, Locative, Singular

• सूत्रे: in/on a thread
• सूत्रे: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: सूत्र
• Form: Neuter, Locative, Singular

• मणिगणाः: groups/strings of gems (beads)
• मणिगणाः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: मणिगण
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Plural

• इव: like, as if
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: इव

Speaker

भीष्म उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Bhishma
• Bhūteśa (Lord of beings)
• Sūtra (thread)
• Maṇi-gaṇa (beads/gems)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The many guṇa-formed beings depend upon and are sustained by the one Supreme Lord (Bhūteśa), just as beads depend on a thread; all existence rests in that Reality and ultimately returns to it.

What is happening in the narrative?

In the Śānti Parva’s instruction section, Bhishma continues his philosophical counsel, using a vivid simile (beads on a thread) to explain how all creatures are held together by the Supreme and how their origin, support, and dissolution are in Him.