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

毗湿摩说道：据说那位大能者仅以风为食，持守苦行达百年之久，恒常礼敬大天神摩诃提婆——乌玛之主——其身能现无量诸相。

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.