Shloka 29
गयाथ फल्गुतीर्थ च धर्मारिण्यं सुरैर्वृतम् । तथा देवनदी पुण्या सरकश्न ब्रह्मनिर्मितम्
bhīṣma uvāca |
gayātha phalgutīrthaṃ ca dharmāraṇyaṃ surair vṛtam |
tathā devanadī puṇyā sarakaśna brahmanirmitam ||
(ataḥ paraṃ devatā-ṛṣi-ādi-vaṃśa-nāmāvalī yathā—) sarvabhūta-namaskṛtaḥ devāsura-guruḥ acintyaḥ anirdeśyaḥ sarva-prāṇa-svarūpaḥ ayoni-jaḥ (svayambhūḥ) jagadīśvaraḥ pitāmahaḥ bhagavān brahmā | tasya patnī satī sāvitrī devī | vedotpatti-sthānaḥ jagatkartā bhagavān nārāyaṇaḥ | trinetraḥ umāpatiḥ mahādevaḥ | devasenāpatiḥ skandaḥ | viśākhaḥ | agniḥ | vāyuḥ | candramāḥ sūryaś ca | śacīpatiḥ indraḥ | yamarājaḥ | tasya patnī dhūmorṇā | varuṇaḥ gauryā saha | kuberaḥ ṛddhyā saha | surabhī gauḥ | maharṣiḥ viśravāḥ | saṅkalpaḥ | sāgaraḥ | gaṅgādayo nadyaḥ | marut-gaṇaḥ | tapaḥ-siddhāḥ vālakhilyāḥ | kṛṣṇa-dvaipāyana-vyāsaḥ | nāradaḥ | parvataḥ | viśvāvasuḥ | hāhā hūhū tumburuḥ citrasenaḥ | devadūtāḥ | devakanyāḥ | apsarasaḥ—urvaśī menakā rambhā miśrakeśī alambuṣā viśvācī ghṛtācī pañcacūḍā tilottamā ca | dvādaśa ādityāḥ aṣṭau vasavaḥ ekādaśa rudrāḥ aśvinau pitaro dharmaḥ | śāstrajñānaṃ tapas dīkṣā vyavasāyaḥ | pitāmahaḥ rātriḥ dinaṃ ca | marīci-nandanaḥ kaśyapaḥ | śukraḥ bṛhaspatiḥ maṅgalaḥ budhaḥ rāhuḥ śanaiścaraḥ | nakṣatrāṇi ṛtavaḥ māsāḥ pakṣāḥ saṃvatsaraḥ | vinatā-putraḥ garuḍaḥ | samudraḥ | kadru-putrāḥ sarpagaṇāḥ | śatadruḥ vipāśā candrabhāgā sarasvatī sindhuḥ devikā prabhāsaḥ puṣkaraḥ gaṅgā mahānadī veṇā kāverī narmadā kulampunā viśalyā karatoyā ambuvāhinī sarayūḥ gaṇḍakī śoṇabhadraḥ tāmra aruṇā vetravatī parṇāśā gautamī godāvarī veṇyā kṛṣṇaveṇā adrijā dṛṣadvatī kāverī cakṣuḥ mandākinī prayāgaḥ prabhāsaḥ naimiṣāraṇyaṃ vimala-sarovaraṃ kurukṣetraṃ uttama-samudraḥ jambūmārgaḥ hiraṇvatī vitastā plakṣavatī vedavatī mālavaḥ aśvavatī gaṅgādvāraṃ ṛṣikulyā carmaṇvatī kauśikī yamunā bhīmarathī bāhudā māhendravāṇī tridivā nīlikā sarasvatī nandā aparanandā mahān hradāḥ gayā phalgutīrthaṃ dharmāraṇyaṃ devanadī brahmanirmitaṃ sarovaraṃ (puṣkaratīrtham) ca | himavān vindhyaḥ meruḥ mahendraḥ malayaḥ śvetagiriḥ śṛṅgavān mandaraḥ nīlaḥ niṣadhaḥ darduraḥ citrakūṭaḥ ajanābhaḥ gandhamādanaḥ somagiriḥ anye ca parvatāḥ | diśaḥ vidiśaḥ bhūmiḥ sarve vṛkṣāḥ viśvedevāḥ ākāśaṃ nakṣatra-grahagaṇāś ca—ete sadā asmān rakṣantu; ye ca nāmato gṛhītāḥ ye ca agṛhītāḥ te sarve devā asmān rakṣantu |
ภีษมะกล่าวว่า “(ข้าขออัญเชิญ) คยาและตี่รถะแห่งแม่น้ำผลคุ; ป่าธรรมอันศักดิ์สิทธิ์ซึ่งเทพทั้งหลายเนืองแน่น; เทวนทีอันบริสุทธิ์; และสระมงคลที่พรหมาสร้าง—เลื่องลือในสามโลก บริสุทธิ์ และขจัดบาปทั้งปวง. (จากนั้นจึงมีบัญชีนามของเทพและฤๅษีสืบต่อไป) ไม่ว่าท่านจะถูกเอ่ยนามหรือมิได้เอ่ยนาม ขอเทพทั้งปวงจงคุ้มครองเราตลอดกาล.”
भीष्म उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse functions as a dharmic benediction: protection is sought by reverently recalling the divine order—gods, sages, sacred rivers, tīrthas, and cosmic measures of time—implying that safety and well-being arise from alignment with dharma and respectful remembrance of what sustains the world.
Bhishma recites an expansive litany of sacred places and divine beings—beginning with Gaya and other tīrthas—and concludes with a prayer that all named and unnamed deities and cosmic powers continually protect ‘us’. It is a formal protective invocation embedded in his instruction.