Shloka 124

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

Anuśāsana-parva 17

Devanagari script

रत्नप्रभूतो रत्नाड़ो महार्णवनिपानवित्‌ | मूलं विशालो ह्ामृतो व्यक्ताव्यक्तस्तपोनिधि:

Transliteration

ratnaprabhūto ratnāḍyo mahārṇava-nipāna-vit | mūlaṁ viśālo 'mṛto vyaktāvyaktas tapo-nidhiḥ ||

Translation

Thần Vāyu nói: “Ngài dồi dào châu báu, giàu kho tàng; Ngài thấu biết những hồ chứa mênh mông như đại dương. Ngài là cội rễ (nguyên nhân) của cây thế gian, rộng lớn và rực rỡ; Ngài chính là amṛta—tinh chất của giải thoát. Ngài vừa hiển lộ vừa vô tướng, và là kho tàng của khổ hạnh.”

Word by Word

• रत्नप्रभूतः: one who abounds in jewels; having plentiful gems
• रत्नप्रभूतः: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: रत्नप्रभूत
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• रत्नाङ्गः: whose limbs are of jewels; jewel-bodied
• रत्नाङ्गः: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: रत्नाङ्ग
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• महार्णवनिपानवित्: knower of the great-ocean-like reservoirs (nipānas)
• महार्णवनिपानवित्: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: महार्णवनिपानवित्
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• मूलम्: the root; the source
• मूलम्: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: मूल
• Form: Neuter, Nominative, Singular

• विशालः: vast; splendid; expansive
• विशालः: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: विशाल
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• अमृतः: immortal; nectar-like; ambrosial
• अमृतः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: अमृत
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• व्यक्ताव्यक्तः: manifest and unmanifest; with both forms
• व्यक्ताव्यक्तः: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: व्यक्ताव्यक्त
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• तपोनिधिः: treasury/storehouse of austerity
• तपोनिधिः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: तपोनिधि
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

Speaker

वायुदेव उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Vāyu-deva (Wind-god, speaker)
• The Supreme Being (implied subject of the epithets)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse presents the Supreme as the ultimate source and support of the cosmos—both immanent (manifest) and transcendent (unmanifest). It frames spiritual attainment ethically through tapas (disciplined austerity) and devotion, portraying the divine as the very essence of immortality/liberation (amṛta).

What is happening in the narrative?

Vāyu-deva is speaking a hymn-like description, listing exalted attributes of the Supreme Being. The passage functions as stuti (praise), using layered epithets—wealth, cosmic causality, transcendence, and ascetic power—to identify the deity’s all-encompassing nature.