Vamana Purana — Saptasarasvata Tirtha, Shloka 58
Harihara Revelation and the Tirtha-Glorification of Saptasarasvata in Kurukshetra
गते मङ्कणके पृथ्वी निश्चला समजायत अथागान्मन्दरं शंभुर्निजमावसथं शुचिः
gate maṅkaṇake pṛthvī niścalā samajāyata athāgānmandaraṃ śaṃbhurnijamāvasathaṃ śuciḥ
“When Maṅkaṇaka had departed, the earth became still. Then Śambhu, the pure one, went to Mandara—his own abode.”
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FAQs
It signals the cessation of extraordinary disturbance associated with the ascetic’s presence or the preceding divine event. Such lines function as narrative punctuation: the world returns to equilibrium once the tīrtha-act and its fruit are completed.
Mandara is a well-known mythic mountain in Purāṇic literature. Here it is explicitly called Śambhu’s ‘own abode,’ making it a sacralized destination within the text’s geography, not merely a physical landmark.
By linking spiritual outcomes and divine movements to named places (Kurukṣetra, Mandara), the narrative maps sanctity onto terrain—turning myth into a guide for remembering and valuing specific sacred locales.