Shloka 110
Śiva-stavarāja: Upamanyu’s Preface and Initiation of the Śarva-Nāma Enumeration
Anuśāsana-parva 17
वणिजो वर्धकी वृक्षो बकुलश्चन्दनश्छद: । सारग्रीवो महाजत्रुरलोलश्व महौषध:
vāyudeva uvāca | vaṇijo vardhakī vṛkṣo bakulaś candanaś chadaḥ | sāraghrīvo mahājatrur alolaśva mahauṣadhaḥ ||
风神伐由说道：“（祂亦现为）商贾；伐木之匠；亦为其树本身；为巴库拉树（bakula）与檀香树；为广覆之荫盖。祂颈项坚实，胸怀宽阔，安定不动摇；并且是大灵药。”
वायुदेव उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse emphasizes divine pervasiveness: the sacred can be recognized in everyday professions (trade, carpentry), in nature (trees, shade), and in virtues like steadiness, as well as in the power to heal. Ethically, it encourages reverence toward work, the natural world, and healing as expressions of dharma.
Vāyu-deva is speaking and describing a being (or principle) through a chain of epithets and identifications—listing forms and qualities such as merchant, carpenter, various trees, canopy, strong-necked, broad-chested, unwavering, and great medicine—creating a portrait of a pervasive, beneficent presence.