Shloka 41

अनुक्रमणिकाध्यायः (Anukramaṇikā Adhyāya) — Invocation, Narrator Frame, and Textual Scope

Devanagari script

त्रयस्त्रिंशत्सहस्राणि त्रयस्त्रिंशच्छतानि च । त्रयस्त्रिंशच्च देवानां सृष्टि: संक्षेपलक्षणा,देवताओंकी सृष्टि संक्षेपसे तैंतीस हजार, तैंतीस सौ और तैंतीस लक्षित होती है

Transliteration

trayastrīṁśatsahasrāṇi trayastrīṁśacchatāni ca | trayastrīṁśacca devānāṁ sṛṣṭiḥ saṁkṣepalakṣaṇā ||

Translation

โดยสรุป การกำเนิด (หรือการนับจำแนก) ของเหล่าเทพมีลักษณะเป็น ‘สามสิบสาม’ กล่าวคือ สามหมื่นสามพัน สามพันสามร้อย และสามสิบสาม—ดังนี้จึงชี้ให้เห็นโดยย่อถึงการนับหมู่เทพตามจารีตโบราณ

Word by Word

त्रयस्त्रिंशत्सहस्राणिthirty-three thousand (items/beings)

त्रयस्त्रिंशच्छतानिthirty-three hundred

चand

त्रयस्त्रिंशत्thirty-three

चand

देवानाम्of the gods

सृष्टिःcreation; emanation

संक्षेपलक्षणाcharacterized briefly; in summary-form

Characters & Entities

deva (the gods)

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Geographic Context

Cross References

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse highlights a traditional Vedic idea: the gods are fundamentally reckoned as ‘thirty-three,’ while larger numbers like ‘thirty-three thousand’ or ‘thirty-three hundred’ function as expanded or conventional ways of speaking. It signals a summarized (saṁkṣepa) classification rather than a literal headcount.

What is happening in the narrative?

Within the opening cosmological and genealogical framing of the Ādi Parva, the text briefly states a conventional enumeration of the divine orders, presenting the count of devas in a condensed, formula-like manner.