Vamana Purana — Daksha's Sacrifice & Kapalin Rudra, Shloka 53
Daksha’s Sacrifice and the Origin of Kapalin Rudra (Pulastya–Narada Dialogue)
जितस्त्वदीयः पुरुषः पितामह नरेण दिव्यद्भुतकर्मणा बली महापृषत्कैरभिपत्य ताडितस्तदद्भुतं चेह दिशो दशैव
jitastvadīyaḥ puruṣaḥ pitāmaha nareṇa divyadbhutakarmaṇā balī mahāpṛṣatkairabhipatya tāḍitastadadbhutaṃ ceha diśo daśaiva
O Grandfather (Brahmā), your own Puruṣa has been conquered by a man—powerful, whose deeds are divinely wondrous. Rushing upon him, he was struck with great arrows; and this marvel has indeed (astonished) the ten directions.
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FAQs
Power is not merely ontological rank (god vs. man) but alignment with a higher will and extraordinary dharma/tejas; the narrative invites humility even for cosmic authorities.
Vamśānucarita / episodic history: it narrates an event involving Brahmā’s associated ‘puruṣa’ and a remarkable ‘nara,’ functioning as a character-episode rather than cosmogenesis.
The ‘ten directions astonished’ is a stock Purāṇic marker for a world-order disturbance: when the expected hierarchy is inverted, it signals the presence of a transcendent agency working through the seemingly lesser.