Vamana Purana — Shiva's Wedding Procession (Part 1), Shloka 38

Shiva’s Wedding Procession to Kailasa and the Marriage of Girija (Kali)

Devanagari script

स एव धन्यो हि पिता यस्य पुत्री शुभं पतिम् रूपाभिजनसंपत्त्या प्राप्नोति गिरिसत्तम

Transliteration

sa eva dhanyo hi pitā yasya putrī śubhaṃ patim rūpābhijanasaṃpattyā prāpnoti girisattama

Translation

“Indeed, only that father is blessed whose daughter obtains an auspicious husband, by virtue of her beauty, noble birth, and prosperity—O best of mountains.”

Speakers

• Not specified in the provided excerpt; vocative ‘girisattama’ suggests the addressee is Himālaya (personified mountain-king)

Primary Deities

• Implied: Himālaya (as a personified mountain-king, father figure in Devī narratives)
• Implied: Devī (as the daughter)

Key Themes

• Dharma
• Marriage norms (kanyā/vara)
• Auspiciousness (śubha)
• Purāṇic social ethics

Verse Rasa (Emotional Flavour)

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FAQs

What is the philosophical or ethical takeaway?

The verse frames familial duty and social harmony: a father’s ‘blessedness’ is linked to establishing the daughter in a worthy marriage, reflecting the Purāṇic ethic of household order (gṛhastha-dharma) as a support of cosmic order.

How does this fit the Pancalakshana?

Vamśānucarita/embedded narrative instruction: it uses a genealogical-mythic setting (Himālaya as archetypal father) to teach dharma; not a cosmological creation segment.

What is the symbolic significance?

Addressing ‘best of mountains’ evokes Himālaya’s stability and sanctity: the daughter’s auspicious alliance symbolizes the channeling of raw power/beauty (rūpa) and inherited virtue (abhijana) into dharmic union, which in Śaiva-Śākta myth culminates in Devī’s union with Śiva.