Vamana Purana — Jabali on the Banyan Tree, Shloka 6
Jabali Bound on the Banyan Tree and Nandayanti’s Appeal at Sri-Kantha on the Yamuna
तव पित्रा ह्यपुत्रेम धर्मनित्येन दानव आराधितो महादेवः पुत्रार्थाय पुरा किल
tava pitrā hyaputrema dharmanityena dānava ārādhito mahādevaḥ putrārthāya purā kila
O Dānava, formerly your father—being without a son and steadfast in dharma—propitiated Mahādeva in order to obtain a son.
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FAQs
Purāṇic narratives often grant moral complexity: even asuras may perform dharmic austerities or worship correctly to obtain boons. The epithet ‘dharmanitya’ signals ritual correctness and steadfast observance as the causal condition for Śiva’s favor.
It frames the episode as a progeny-boon (putra-varadāna) story, setting up the later consequences—here, the birth of a son whose condition (blindness) becomes central to the Andhaka cycle.
Not in this śloka. The verse is purely etiological and devotional; any associated sacred geography would appear in surrounding verses/chapters, not in the provided line.