Vamana Purana — Saptarishis Seek Uma for Shiva, Shloka 5
The Saptarishis Seek Uma for Shiva: Himavan Grants the Marriage
जातास्ताः कन्यकास्तिस्रः षडब्दात् परतो मुने कर्तुं तपः प्रयातास्ता देवास्ता ददृशुः शुभाः
jātāstāḥ kanyakāstisraḥ ṣaḍabdāt parato mune kartuṃ tapaḥ prayātāstā devāstā dadṛśuḥ śubhāḥ
أيها الحكيم، بعد ستّ سنين، وُلدت تلك الفتيات الثلاث، ثم مضين لأداء التَّبَس (الزهد والنسك). عندئذٍ أبصرتهنّ الآلهة وهنّ ذواتُ يُمنٍ وبركة.
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FAQs
Tapas is presented as a force that draws divine notice: even very young practitioners can generate spiritual potency and auspiciousness (śubhatva) through disciplined intent.
Still within Vaṃśānucarita/Carita: a biographical turn (their decision for tapas) that leads into interaction with higher worlds and deities.
‘After six years’ functions as a narrative marker of early maturation into dharma; the gods ‘seeing’ them signals that tapas is socially/cosmically legible—an act that changes one’s standing in the universe.