Mahabharata · Chapter 14.44
yadādimadhyaparyantaṃ grahaṇopāyameva ca /
nāmalakṣaṇasaṃyuktaṃ sarvaṃ vakṣyāmi tattvataḥ //
ahaḥ pūrvaṃ tato rātrirmāsāḥ śuklādayaḥ smṛtāḥ /
śravaṇādīni ṛkṣāṇi ṛtavaḥ śiśirādayaḥ //
bhūmirādistu gandhānāṃ rasānāmāpa eva ca /
rūpāṇāmādiragnistu sparśādirvāyurucyate //
śabdasyādistathā'kāśameṣa bhūtakṛto guṇaḥ /
ataḥ paraṃ pravakṣyāmi bhūtānāmādimuttamam //
ādityo jyotiṣāmādiragnirbhūtādirucyate /
sāvitrī sarvavidyānāṃ devatānāṃ prajāpatiḥ //
oṅkāraḥ sarvavedānāṃ vacasāṃ prāṇa eva ca /
yadasminniyataṃ loke sarvaṃ sāvitramucyate //
gāyatrī cchandasāmādiḥ prajānāṃ sarga ucyate /
gāvaścatuṣpadāmādirmanuṣyāṇāṃ dvijātayaḥ //
śyenaḥ patatriṇāmādiryajñānāṃ hutamuttamam /
prasarpiṇāṃ tu sarveṣāṃ jyeṣṭhaḥ sarpo dvijottamāḥ //
kṛtamādiryugānāṃ ca sarveṣāṃ nātra saṃśayaḥ /
hiraṇyaṃ sarvaratnānāmoṣadhīnāṃ yavāstathā //
sarveṣāṃ bhakṣyabhojyānāmannaṃ paramamucyate /
dravāṇāṃ caiva sarveṣāṃ peyānāmāpa uttamāḥ //
sthāvarāṇāṃ tu bhūtānāṃ sarveṣāmaviśeṣataḥ /
brahmakṣetraṃ sadā puṇyaṃ plakṣaḥ pravarajaḥ smṛtaḥ //
ahaṃ prajāpatīnāṃ ca sarveṣāṃ nātra saṃśayaḥ /
mama viṣṇuracintyātmā svayambhūriti saṃsmṛtaḥ //
parvatānāṃ mahāmeruḥ sarveṣāmagrajaḥ smṛtaḥ /
diśāṃ ca pradiśāṃ cordhvaṃ dikpūrvā prathamā tathā //
tathā tripathagā gaṅgā nadīnāmagrajā smṛtā /
tathā sarodapānanāṃ sarveṣāṃ sāgaro'grajaḥ //
devadānavabhūtānāṃ piśācoragarakṣasām /
narakinnarayakṣāṇāṃ sarveṣāmīśvaraḥ prabhuḥ //
ādirviśvasya jagato viṣṇurbrahmamayo mahān /
tataḥ parataraṃ yasmāttrailokye neha vidyate //
āśramāṇāṃ ca sarveṣāṃ gārhasthyaṃ nātra saṃśayaḥ /
lokānāmādiravyaktaṃ sarvasyāntastadeva ca //
ahānyastamayāntāni udayāntā ca śarvarī /
sukhasyāntaṃ sadā duḥkhaṃ duḥkhasyāntaṃ sadā sukhama //
sarve kṣayāntā nicayāḥ patanāntāḥ samucchrayāḥ /
saṃyogāśca viyogāntā maraṇāntaṃ ca jīvitam //
sarvaṃ kṛtaṃ vināśāntaṃ jātasya maraṇaṃ dhruvam /
aśāśvataṃ hi loke'sminsadā sthāvarajaṅgamam //
iṣṭaṃ dattaṃ tapo'dhītaṃ vratāni niyamāśca ye /
sarvametadvināśāntaṃ jñānasyānto na vidyate //
tasmājjñānena śuddhena praśāntātmā jitendriyaḥ /
nirmamo nirahankāro mucyate sarvapāpmabhiḥ //
Original text: Mahābhārata (southern recension) · Edition: Śrīman Mahābhāratam, ed. T. R. Krishnacharya and T. R. Vyasacharya, Nirnaya Sagar Press, Bombay 1906–1910; e-text by SARIT (Shrinivasa Varakhedi and others) · SARIT: Search and Retrieval of Indic Texts · SARIT (e-text) via Internet Archive · CC BY-SA 3.0