Shloka 45

Devanagari script

दारुणोत्पातसंचारो नभस: स्तनयित्नुमान्‌ । पजञ्चम: स महावेगो विवहो नाम मारुत:,'जो रुक्षभावसे वेगपूर्वक महान्‌ शब्दके साथ बहकर बड़े-बड़े वृक्षोंको तोड़ देता और उखाड़ फेंकता है तथा जिसके द्वारा संगठित हुए प्रलयकालीन मेघ “बलाहक' संज्ञा धारण करते हैं, जिस वायुका संचरण भयानक उत्पात लानेवाला होता है तथा जो आकाशसे अपने साथ मेघोंकी घटाएँ लिये चलता है, उस अत्यन्त वेगशाली पंचम वायुको “विवह' नाम दिया गया है

Transliteration

dāruṇotpātasañcāro nabhasaḥ stanayitnumān | pañcamaḥ sa mahāvego vivaho nāma mārutaḥ ||

Translation

ఆకాశంలో గర్జనమయ మేఘాలను మోసుకుంటూ సంచరించే, భయంకర ఉపద్రవాలను కలిగించే, అత్యంత వేగవంతమైన ఐదవ మారుతుడు ‘వివహ’ అనే పేరుతో ప్రసిద్ధి.

Word by Word

दारुणोत्पातसंचारःmovement that brings dreadful portents

नभसःfrom the sky

स्तनयित्नुमान्thundering; having thunder

पञ्चमःthe fifth

सःhe/that (wind)

महावेगःof great speed; very swift

विवहःVivaha (name of a wind)

नामby name; called

मारुतःwind

Speaker

भीष्म उवाच

Characters & Entities

Bhīṣma

Vivaha (wind)

māruta (wind)

nabhas (sky)

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 passage classifies a specific type of wind by its observable effects—speed, thunder-bearing clouds, and ominous disturbances—illustrating the epic’s didactic habit of reading nature as meaningful and ethically significant through the lens of omens (utpāta).

What is happening in the narrative?

In Bhīṣma’s instructional discourse, he enumerates and names winds; here he identifies the fifth as “Vivaha,” describing it as a violent, sky-ranging gale associated with thunder-cloud formations and fearsome portents.