Shloka 25

Devanagari script

नन्दी श्वरो महाकायो ग्रामणीर्वृषभध्वज: । ईश्वरा: सर्वलोकानां गणेश्व॒रविनायका:

Transliteration

nandīśvaro mahākāyo grāmaṇī vṛṣabhadhvajaḥ | īśvarāḥ sarvalokānāṃ gaṇeśvaravināyakāḥ, kīrtayan prayataḥ sarvān sarvapāpaiḥ pramucyate |

Translation

نندییشور، مہاکای، گرامَنی، ورشبھ دھوج—تمام لوکوں کے ایشور، گنیشور اور وِنایک—ان سب کے نام جو شخص ضبطِ نفس اور پاک نیت کے ساتھ کیرتن کرتا ہے، وہ ہر گناہ سے چھوٹ جاتا ہے۔

Word by Word

• नन्दीश्वरः: Nandīśvara (name of Śiva)
• नन्दीश्वरः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: नन्दीश्वर
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• महाकायः: of great body/huge-bodied
• महाकायः: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: महाकाय
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• ग्रामणीः: leader/chief
• ग्रामणीः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: ग्रामणी
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• वृषभध्वजः: he whose banner is the bull (Śiva)
• वृषभध्वजः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: वृषभध्वज
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• ईश्वराः: lords
• ईश्वराः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: ईश्वर
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Plural

• सर्वलोकानाम्: of all worlds
• सर्वलोकानाम्: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: सर्वलोक
• Form: Masculine, Genitive, Plural

• गणेश्वरविनायकाः: Gaṇeśvaras and Vināyakas (classes of attendants/deities)
• गणेश्वरविनायकाः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: गणेश्वर-विनायक
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Plural

• कीर्तयन्: praising/reciting (names)
• कीर्तयन्: Karta
• Type: Verb
• Root: कीर्तय्
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular, Present active participle (śatṛ)

• प्रयतः: self-restrained, pure, attentive
• प्रयतः: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: प्रयत
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• सर्वान्: all (of them)
• सर्वान्: Karma
• Type: Adjective
• Root: सर्व
• Form: Masculine, Accusative, Plural

• सर्वपापैः: from all sins
• सर्वपापैः: Apadana
• Type: Noun
• Root: सर्वपाप
• Form: Neuter, Ablative, Plural

• प्रमुच्यते: is released/freed
• प्रमुच्यते: Karma
• Type: Verb
• Root: मुच्
• Form: Present, Passive, Third, Singular

Speaker

भीष्म उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Bhīṣma
• Śiva (implied by epithets such as Vṛṣabhadhvaja)
• Nandīśvara (Nandin)
• Gaṇeśvara
• Vināyaka

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

Disciplined and sincere recitation of divine names (especially Śiva and associated powers) is presented as a means of ethical purification—freeing a person from accumulated wrongdoing and strengthening commitment to dharma.

What is happening in the narrative?

In Bhīṣma’s instruction (Anuśāsana Parva), he enumerates revered names/epithets connected with Śiva and his hosts, stating that a person who praises them with restraint and purity becomes liberated from all sins.