Shloka 16

अध्याय ३२३ — श्वेतद्वीपगमनम्, यज्ञभाग-विवादः, एकान्तिभक्त्या नारायणदर्शन-नियमः (Śvetadvīpa Journey; Dispute over Sacrificial Share; Rule of Nārāyaṇa-vision through Single-minded Devotion)

Devanagari script

अतिष्ठन्मारुताहार: शतं किल समा: प्रभु: । आराधयन्महादेवं बहुरूपमुमापतिम्‌,शक्तिशाली व्यासजी सौ वर्षोतक केवल वायुभक्षण करते हुए अनेक रूपधारी उमापति महादेवजीकी आराधनामें लगे रहे

Transliteration

atiṣṭhanmārutāhāraḥ śataṃ kila samāḥ prabhuḥ | ārādhayanmahādevaṃ bahurūpamumāpatiṃ ||

Translation

Bhīṣma nói: Người hùng lực ấy được truyền rằng đã sống trọn một trăm năm, chỉ nương vào khí trời làm dưỡng chất, không ngừng thờ phụng Mahādeva—đấng phu quân của Umā—vị thần hiện thân muôn hình vạn trạng.

Word by Word

• अतिष्ठत्: stood; remained
• Type: Verb
• Root: स्था (तिष्ठ)
• Form: लङ् (Imperfect), परस्मैपद, 3, singular

• मारुताहारः: one whose food is wind (air-eater)
• मारुताहारः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: मारुत-आहार
• Form: masculine, nominative, singular

• शतम्: a hundred
• शतम्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: शत
• Form: neuter, accusative, singular

• किल: indeed; it is said
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: किल

• समाः: years
• समाः: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: समा
• Form: feminine, accusative, plural

• प्रभुः: the lord; the mighty one
• प्रभुः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: प्रभु
• Form: masculine, nominative, singular

• आराधयन्: worshipping; propitiating
• Type: Verb
• Root: आ-राध्
• Form: शतृ (present active participle), masculine, nominative, singular

• महादेवम्: Mahadeva (the great god, Shiva)
• महादेवम्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: महादेव
• Form: masculine, accusative, singular

• बहुरूपम्: many-formed
• Type: Adjective
• Root: बहुरूप
• Form: masculine, accusative, singular

• उमापतिम्: the lord of Uma (Shiva)
• उमापतिम्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: उमापति
• Form: masculine, accusative, singular

Speaker

भीष्म उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Bhishma
• Mahadeva (Shiva)
• Uma (Parvati)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse upholds tapas (austerity) and bhakti (devotion) as ethical-spiritual disciplines: steadfast restraint of bodily needs and sustained worship cultivate inner power, purity, and closeness to the divine.

What is happening in the narrative?

Bhishma describes a revered figure who, for a hundred years, practiced extreme austerity by subsisting on air and devotedly worshipped Shiva (Mahadeva), praised as the many-formed lord of Uma.