Anushasana Parva Adhyaya 14 Shloka 1 - Mahabharata | Telugu | Vedapath

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Shloka 1

Śiva-nāmānukīrtana-prastāvaḥ

Prologue to the praise of Śiva and the Upamanyu testimony

Devanagari script

(दाक्षिणात्य अधिक पाठके २०४३ “लोक मिलाकर कुल २१०३ श्लोक हैं) भी्न्आा+ज (2) आस मना चतुर्दशो<5 ध्याय: भीष्मजीकी आज्ञासे भगवान्‌ श्रीकृष्णका युधिष्ठिरसे महादेवजीके माहात्म्यकी कथामें उपमन्युद्वारा महादेवजीकी स्तुति-प्रार्थना, उनके दर्शन और वरदान पानेका तथा अपनेको दर्शन प्राप्त होनेका कथन युधिछ्िर उवाच त्वया55पगेन नामानि श्रुतानीह जगत्पते: । पितामहेशाय विभो नामान्याचक्ष्व शम्भवे,युधिष्ठिरने कहा--गंगानन्दन! आपने ब्रह्माजीके भी ईश्वर कल्याणकारी जगदीश्वर भगवान्‌ शिवके जो नाम सुने हों, उन्हें यहाँ बताइये

Transliteration

yudhiṣṭhira uvāca | tvayopagītena nāmāni śrutānīha jagatpateḥ | pitāmaheśāya vibho nāmāny ācakṣva śambhave ||

Translation

యుధిష్ఠిరుడు పలికెను—గంగానందనా! నీవు ఇక్కడ జగత్పతి, బ్రహ్మకూ ఈశ్వరుడు, విభువు కల్యాణకరుడు శంభువు యొక్క పవిత్ర నామములను వినితివి. దయచేసి ఆ నామములను నాకు చెప్పుము.

Word by Word

युधिष्ठिरःYudhiṣṭhira

उवाचsaid

त्वयाby you

उपगेनO Upaga (son of the Ganges / one named Upaga)

नामानिnames

श्रुतानिheard

इहhere

जगत्पतेःof the Lord of the world

पितामहेशायto/for Pitāmaheśa (the Great-grandsire Lord; epithet of Śiva)

विभोO mighty one

नामानिnames

आचक्ष्वtell, relate

शम्भवेto/for Śambhu (Śiva)

Speaker

युधिछ्िर उवाच

Characters & Entities

Yudhiṣṭhira

Bhīṣma (implied as listener addressed as Gaṅgā-nandana in the Gītā Press gloss)

Gaṅgā

Śiva (Śambhu)

Brahmā (pitāmaha, implied by pitāmaheśa)

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

War Context

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Geographic Context

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse frames devotion as disciplined listening and recitation: sacred names (nāma) of the supreme Lord are to be learned from a qualified elder and repeated with reverence, establishing a dharmic path of praise (stuti) and remembrance.

What is happening in the narrative?

In Bhīṣma’s instruction to Yudhiṣṭhira, Yudhiṣṭhira requests that Bhīṣma recount the auspicious names of Śiva—described as the Lord even of Brahmā—setting up a section on Śiva’s greatness and the power of his names.