Vamana Purana — Caturmasya Observances, Shloka 61

The Cāturmāsya Observances and the Sleeping–Awakening Cycle of the Gods (Hari–Hara Worship)

Devanagari script

समारोप्य सुकेशिं च परिष्वज्य च शङ्करम् प्रणम्य केशवं देवं वैराजं स्वगृहं गतः

Transliteration

samāropya sukeśiṃ ca pariṣvajya ca śaṅkaram praṇamya keśavaṃ devaṃ vairājaṃ svagṛhaṃ gataḥ

Translation

And having (thus) re-established Sukeśī, and having embraced Śaṅkara, he bowed to the god Keśava and then went to his own abode, Vairāja.

Word by Word

• samāropya: having placed (him) up
• samāropya: Purvakala-kriya (पूर्वकाल-क्रिया)
• Type: Verb
• Root: √ruh (रुह् धातु)
• Form: णिच् causative (samāropayati); क्त्वान्त (absolutive) with उपसर्ग: सम्+आ; ‘having placed/caused to mount’

• sukeśim: Sukeśin
• sukeśim: Karma (कर्म)
• Type: Noun
• Root: su+keśin (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: कर्मधारय-समास; पुंलिङ्ग, द्वितीया, एकवचन

• ca: and
• ca: Sambandha (सम्बन्ध/समुच्चय)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: ca (अव्यय)
• Form: समुच्चयबोधक अव्यय

• pariṣvajya: having embraced
• pariṣvajya: Purvakala-kriya (पूर्वकाल-क्रिया)
• Type: Verb
• Root: √svaj (स्वज् धातु)
• Form: उपसर्ग: परि+; क्त्वान्त (absolutive): ‘having embraced’

• ca: and
• ca: Sambandha (सम्बन्ध/समुच्चय)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: ca (अव्यय)
• Form: समुच्चयबोधक अव्यय

• śaṅkaram: Śaṅkara
• śaṅkaram: Karma (कर्म)
• Type: Noun
• Root: śaṅkara (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, द्वितीया, एकवचन

• praṇamya: having bowed to
• praṇamya: Purvakala-kriya (पूर्वकाल-क्रिया)
• Type: Verb
• Root: √nam (नम् धातु)
• Form: उपसर्ग: प्र+; क्त्वान्त (absolutive): ‘having bowed/saluted’

• keśavam: Keśava (Viṣṇu)
• keśavam: Karma (कर्म)
• Type: Noun
• Root: keśava (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, द्वितीया, एकवचन

• devam: the god
• devam: Karma (कर्म)
• Type: Noun
• Root: deva (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, द्वितीया, एकवचन; केशवस्य विशेषण (appositional)

• vairājam: the splendid/virāj-like
• vairājam: Karma (कर्म)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: virāj (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, द्वितीया, एकवचन; विशेषण (epithet: ‘splendid/royal’; also ‘of Virāj’)

• sva-gṛham: to (his) own house
• sva-gṛham: Gati-karma (गतिकर्म/गन्तव्य)
• Type: Noun
• Root: sva+gṛha (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: कर्मधारय-समास (‘स्वं गृहम्’); नपुंसकलिङ्ग, द्वितीया, एकवचन

• gataḥ: went / having gone
• gataḥ: Kriya (क्रिया)
• Type: Verb
• Root: √gam (गम् धातु)
• Form: कृदन्त (क्त-प्रत्यय, past participle) ‘gone’; पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा, एकवचन; कर्तरि प्रयोग (used predicatively)

Speakers

• Third-person narration (dialogue frame not explicit in excerpt)

Primary Deities

• Shiva
• Vishnu

Key Themes

• Sectarian harmony
• Devotional reverence (praṇāma)
• Reconciliation
• Divine unity in function

Verse Rasa (Emotional Flavour)

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FAQs

What is the philosophical or ethical takeaway?

Proper gratitude culminates in reverence: honoring both Śiva and Viṣṇu models the Purāṇic ethic that devotion need not be exclusivist when the cosmic good is served by multiple divine agencies.

How does this fit the Pancalakshana?

Ākhyāna/vaṃśānucarita-type narrative segment: it records the concluding actions (embrace, salutation, return to abode) that seal an episode of divine restoration.

What is the symbolic significance?

Embracing Śiva and bowing to Keśava in the same breath encodes Hari–Hara complementarity: protection/restoration (Śiva) and sustaining divinity (Viṣṇu) are presented as mutually affirming facets of one dharmic order.