Shloka 74
Aṣṭāvakra’s Visit to Kubera: Hospitality, Temptation, and the Ethics of Restraint (अष्टावक्र-वैश्रवणोपाख्यानम्)
अग्रया बुद्धिर्मनसा दर्शने च स्पर्शक्षाग्रय: कर्मणां या च सिद्धि: । गणा देवानामूष्मपा: सोमपाश्न लेखा: सुयामास्तुषिता ब्रह्मुकाया:
agrayā buddhir manasā darśane ca sparśakṣāgrayāḥ karmaṇāṁ yā ca siddhiḥ | gaṇā devānām ūṣmapāḥ somapāś ca lekhāḥ suyāmās tuṣitā brahmukāyāḥ ||
风神伐由天说道：“在诸内在机能之中，最为尊上者为上智（buddhi）与意（manas），并有见之力与触之力；而尤为尊上者，是使诸行得其所成、达其所愿的成就（siddhi）。同样，在天众之中，有‘饮’温热者（ūṣmapāḥ）、享用苏摩者（somapāḥ），以及名为Lekhas、Suyāmas、Tuṣitas与梵身之众。”
वायुदेव उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse links inner mastery (buddhi, manas, and the senses) with the successful completion of action (siddhi), and then situates these human faculties within a broader cosmic order by naming prominent classes of divine beings—suggesting that both ethical action and spiritual understanding belong to an ordered hierarchy.
Vāyu-deva is speaking and enumerating ‘foremost’ faculties and notable divine groups. The passage functions as part of a larger catalog of cosmic principles and celestial classes, reinforcing a theological-cosmological frame for dharma and the workings of action and attainment.