Shloka 141
Śiva-nāmānukīrtana-prastāvaḥ
Prologue to the praise of Śiva and the Upamanyu testimony
नराणां देवनारीणां तथा प्रेतपिशाचयो: । किरातशबराणां च जलजानामनेकश:
narāṇāṁ devanārīṇāṁ tathā pretapiśācayoḥ | kirātaśabarāṇāṁ ca jalajānām anekaśaḥ ||
واسودیو نے کہا—انسانوں میں، دیوناریوں میں، نیز پریتوں اور پِشاشوں میں؛ کِراتوں اور شَبروں میں بھی؛ اور پانی میں پیدا ہونے والی بےشمار قسم کی مخلوقات میں بھی (یہی اصول ہر جگہ دکھائی دیتا ہے)۔
वासुदेव उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse emphasizes the wide scope of a stated principle by listing many categories of beings—human, divine, spirit-world, tribal communities, and aquatic life—implying that the teaching applies universally across different realms and forms of existence.
Vāsudeva is speaking and broadening his point through an enumerative catalogue of beings. The verse functions as a rhetorical expansion: it signals that what he is describing is not limited to a single group but is observed among many kinds of creatures and communities.