Shloka 9

Makara-vyūha and Krauñca-prativyūha at Sunrise (मकरव्यूहः क्रौञ्चप्रतिव्यूहश्च)

Devanagari script

एवं त्वामभिजानन्ति तपसा भाविता नरा: | आत्मदर्शनतृप्तानामृषीणां चासि सत्तम:

Transliteration

evaṁ tvām abhijānanti tapasā bhāvitā narāḥ | ātmadarśanatṛptānām ṛṣīṇāṁ cāsi sattamaḥ ||

Translation

正是如此，那些以苦行净炼其内在的人，才能如实认识你。并且在因亲证自我而满足的圣贤之眼中，你是诸高贵者之最上——灵性德行至极，堪受敬礼与供奉。

Word by Word

• एवम्: thus, in this manner
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: एवम्

• त्वाम्: you (object)
• त्वाम्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: युष्मद्
• Form: —, Accusative, Singular

• अभिजानन्ति: know, recognize
• Type: Verb
• Root: अभि-ज्ञा
• Form: Present, 3rd, Plural, Parasmaipada

• तपसा: by austerity, through penance
• तपसा: Karana
• Type: Noun
• Root: तपस्
• Form: Neuter, Instrumental, Singular

• भाविताः: purified, cultivated (by)
• भाविताः: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: भावित
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Plural

• नराः: men, persons
• नराः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: नर
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Plural

• आत्मदर्शनतृप्तानाम्: of those satisfied with self-realization
• Type: Adjective
• Root: आत्मदर्शनतृप्त
• Form: Masculine, Genitive, Plural

• ऋषीणाम्: of sages
• Type: Noun
• Root: ऋषि
• Form: Masculine, Genitive, Plural

• च: and
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: च

• असि: are
• Type: Verb
• Root: अस्
• Form: Present, 2nd, Singular, Parasmaipada

• सत्तमः: the best, the most excellent
• सत्तमः: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: सत्तम
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

Speaker

भीष्म उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Bhīṣma
• you (the addressed supreme person/deity)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

True recognition of the Supreme comes through inner purification by tapas and culminates in direct Self-realization; those established in such realization regard the addressed Lord as the highest excellence (sattamaḥ).

What is happening in the narrative?

Bhīṣma is offering a hymn-like praise, asserting that spiritually disciplined people and realized sages alike know the addressed being as supremely exalted.