Shloka 58
Śiva-stavarāja: Upamanyu’s Preface and Initiation of the Śarva-Nāma Enumeration
Anuśāsana-parva 17
शिखी मुण्डी जटी ज्वाली मूर्तिजो मूर्द्धनो बली । वेणवी पणवी ताली खली कालकटंकट:
śikhī muṇḍī jaṭī jvālī mūrtijo mūrdhano balī | veṇavī paṇavī tālī khalī kāla-kaṭaṅkaṭaḥ ||
Wika ni Vāyu-deva: “Siya ang may tuktok na buhol ng buhok, ang ahit-ulo, ang may buhaghag na mga jata, at ang nagliliyab sa banal na apoy; Siya’y nahahayag sa anyong may katawan at dapat pagnilayan sa tuktok ng ulo (pinakamataas na sentrong espirituwal); Siya’y makapangyarihan. Siya ang manunugtog ng plauta, ang tumutugtog ng tambol, at ang tagapag-ingat ng tiyempo; Siya ang panginoon ng giikan, at ang nagtatakip maging sa kapangyarihan ng Kamatayan (Yama).”
वायुदेव उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse strings together epithets to show the one divine reality as present across all āśramas (householder, renunciant, forest-dweller, student) and across sacred and worldly domains (ritual fire, meditation, music, agriculture), culminating in transcendence over Kāla/Yama—implying that true divinity pervades every legitimate mode of dharmic life and surpasses death.
Vāyudeva is speaking and praising the deity through a litany of names/attributes. The speech functions as a devotional identification: the praised figure can appear in multiple social-religious forms and activities, and is ultimately the supreme power who can conceal or overcome Death.