Shloka 22
अध्याय १६ — शङ्कर-उमा-वरदानम् तथा तण्डि-स्तुतिः (Śaṅkara–Umā Boon-Granting and Taṇḍi’s Hymn)
ब्रह्मा भवश्व विष्णुश्न स्कन्देन्द्री सविता यम: । वरुणेन्दू मनुर्धाता विधाता त्वं धनेश्वर:
brahmā bhavaś ca viṣṇuś ca skanda indraḥ savitā yamaḥ | varuṇa induḥ manuḥ dhātā vidhātā tvaṃ dhaneśvaraḥ ||
وایو نے کہا— آپ ہی برہما، بھَو (شیو) اور وِشنو ہیں؛ آپ ہی اسکند، اندر، سَوِتا (سورج) اور یم ہیں۔ آپ ہی ورُن، چاند، منو، دھاتا اور وِدھاتا ہیں؛ اور آپ ہی دولت کے مالک کُبیر ہیں۔
वायुदेव उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse teaches a unitive vision: the one being addressed is identified with many deities and their functions. Ethically, it encourages humility and devotion by recognizing that all powers—creation, governance, justice, and prosperity—ultimately rest in a single supreme reality.
Vāyu is offering a hymn of praise (stuti), listing major gods and cosmic administrators and declaring them to be forms or aspects of the one addressed. This is a rhetorical device to express supremacy and all-pervasiveness.