Shloka 7
कालियदमना: यमुनाशुद्धिः, करुणा-निग्रहः, स्तुति-तत्त्वम्
तेनेयं दूषिता सर्वा यमुना सागराङ्गना न नरैर् गोधनैर् वापि तृषार्तैर् उपभुज्यते
teneyaṃ dūṣitā sarvā yamunā sāgarāṅganā na narair godhanair vāpi tṛṣārtair upabhujyate
بسببه تلوّثت يمنا كلّها، وهي كعروسٍ للمحيط؛ لذلك لا يشرب من مائها لا الناس ولا الماشية، وإن أضناهم العطش.
Sage Parāśara (narrating to Maitreya)
Speaker: Parasara
Topic: How Kāliya’s presence harmed the Yamunā and prompted Krishna’s protective action.
Teaching: Historical
Quality: revealing
Avatara: Krishna
Purpose: Krishna intervenes because Kāliya’s poison has rendered the Yamunā unusable, threatening the lives of humans and cattle in Vraja.
Leela: Loka-rakshana
Dharma Restored: Safeguarding communal welfare and the righteous pastoral order dependent on pure water.
Vishnu Form: Krishna
Bhakti Type: Vatsalya
FAQs
It personifies the river as a divine being whose purity and dignity matter within dharma; her “marriage” to the ocean underscores sacred geography as part of cosmic order.
He frames pollution as a real dharmic consequence: the river becomes unusable even for the thirsty, showing that adharma disrupts what should sustain life.
Even when Vishnu is not named in the verse, the Purana’s worldview assumes a Vishnu-governed moral cosmos where purity, order, and the welfare of beings depend on alignment with dharma.