Kurma Purana — Purva Bhaga, Shloka 39
Solar Rays, Planetary Nourishment, Dhruva-Bondage of the Grahas, and the Lunar Cycle
शुक्रस्य भूमिजैरश्वैः स्यन्दनो दशभिर्वृतः / अष्टबिश्चाथ भौमस्य रथो हैमः सुशोभनः
śukrasya bhūmijairaśvaiḥ syandano daśabhirvṛtaḥ / aṣṭabiścātha bhaumasya ratho haimaḥ suśobhanaḥ
শুক্ৰৰ ৰথ ভূমিজ দহটা অশ্বে আৱৃত; আৰু ভৌম (মঙ্গল)ৰ ৰথ আঠটা হয়ে যুক্ত, স্বৰ্ণময় আৰু অতি শোভন।
Purāṇic narrator (Vyāsa/Sūta-style narration) describing cosmic order
Primary Rasa: adbhuta
Secondary Rasa: shanta
FAQs
This verse is primarily cosmographic, presenting orderly planetary motion through symbolic chariots; indirectly, it supports the Purāṇic vision that the cosmos operates under a higher, intelligible order upheld by the Supreme.
No direct yogic technique is taught in this verse; its value is contemplative—using cosmic order (graha-ratha imagery) as a support for dhyāna on īśvara-niyati (divine governance), a theme that becomes explicit in the Kurma Purana’s later spiritual instructions.
The verse does not explicitly mention Śiva or Viṣṇu; however, within the Kurma Purana’s Shaiva–Vaishnava synthesis, such cosmological descriptions are typically framed as functions of the one supreme reality revered through both names and forms.