Shloka 111

Śiva-stavarāja: Upamanyu’s Preface and Initiation of the Śarva-Nāma Enumeration

Anuśāsana-parva 17

Devanagari script

सिद्धार्थकारी सिद्धार्थश्छन्दोव्याकरणोत्तर: । सिंहनाद: सिंहदंष्ट: सिंहग: सिंहवाहन:

Transliteration

siddhārthakārī siddhārthaś chandovyākaraṇottaraḥ | siṃhanādaḥ siṃhadamṣṭraḥ siṃhagaḥ siṃhavāhanaḥ ||

Translation

Thần Vāyu nói: “Ngài là đấng làm cho những mục tiêu đã thành tựu được viên mãn, chính là hiện thân của chân lý đã được xác lập; tối thượng trong các ngành học về thi luật Veda và ngữ pháp. Ngài gầm như sư tử, mang nanh sư tử, đi lại khi cưỡi sư tử và lấy sư tử làm cỗ xe—những hình tượng ấy tuyên cáo sức mạnh không gì cưỡng nổi, được đặt vào việc phụng sự mục đích chính pháp.”

Word by Word

• सिद्धार्थकारी: one who accomplishes (others') aims; fulfiller of wishes
• सिद्धार्थकारी: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: सिद्धार्थकारिन्
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• सिद्धार्थः: one whose purpose is accomplished; the accomplished one
• सिद्धार्थः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: सिद्धार्थ
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• छन्दोव्याकरणोत्तरः: versed in chandas and grammar; (one who is) the later/culminating (authority) after chandas and grammar
• छन्दोव्याकरणोत्तरः: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: छन्दोव्याकरणोत्तर
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• सिंहनादः: lion-roar; one who roars like a lion
• सिंहनादः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: सिंहनाद
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• सिंहदंष्टः: lion-fanged; having teeth like a lion
• सिंहदंष्टः: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: सिंहदंष्ट
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• सिंहगः: lion-going; one who moves mounted on a lion
• सिंहगः: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: सिंहग
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• सिंहवाहनः: lion-vehicle; one whose mount is a lion
• सिंहवाहनः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: सिंहवाहन
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

Speaker

वायुदेव उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Vāyudeva (Vāyu)
• lion (siṃha)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse praises the divine as both (1) a benefactor who brings devotees’ aims to fruition and (2) the very standard of true, well-established knowledge, while also portraying overwhelming power through lion imagery—suggesting that strength is most meaningful when aligned with dharma and used to protect and uplift.

What is happening in the narrative?

Vāyu is reciting a sequence of honorific names (epithets). This verse clusters titles that highlight mastery of sacred learning (metre and grammar) and royal, fearsome might (lion-roar, lion-fangs, lion-mount), functioning as devotional praise within the Anuśāsana Parva’s didactic setting.