Mahabharata — Anushasana Parva, Shloka 27
स विहायो व्यदधात् पञ्चनाभि: स निर्ममे गां दिवमन्तरिक्षम् सो<रण्यानि व्यसृजत् पर्वतांश्व हृषीकेशो5मितदीप्ताग्नितेजा:
sa vihāyo vyadadhāt pañcanābhiḥ sa nirmame gāṃ divam antarīkṣam | so 'raṇyāni vyasṛjat parvatāṃś ca hṛṣīkeśo 'mitadīptāgnitejāḥ ||
Wika ni Bhīṣma: “Siya, ang Panginoong may limang-navé (pañcanābhi), ang humubog sa langit; Siya rin ang lumikha sa lupa, sa daigdig na makalangit, at sa gitnang kalawakan. Yaong Hṛṣīkeśa—na ang ningning ay tulad ng apoy na naglalagablab nang di masukat—ang nagluwal ng mga gubat at mga bundok.”
भीष्म उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse teaches that Kṛṣṇa (Hṛṣīkeśa) is the cosmic creator and sustainer: the worlds and natural order arise from him. Ethically, it encourages devotion and dharmic living by recognizing a divine foundation behind the universe and its order.
In Bhīṣma’s instruction to Yudhiṣṭhira in the Anuśāsana Parva, Bhīṣma praises Kṛṣṇa with cosmic epithets and attributes to him the creation of space, earth, heaven, the atmosphere, forests, and mountains—elevating Kṛṣṇa’s status from ally in the war to supreme divine principle.