Vamana Purana — Caturmasya Observances, Shloka 39
The Cāturmāsya Observances and the Sleeping–Awakening Cycle of the Gods (Hari–Hara Worship)
स भानुना तदा दृष्टः क्रोधाध्मातेन चत्रुषा निपपाताम्बराद् भ्रष्टः क्षीणपुण्य इव ग्रहः
sa bhānunā tadā dṛṣṭaḥ krodhādhmātena catruṣā nipapātāmbarād bhraṣṭaḥ kṣīṇapuṇya iva grahaḥ
সেয়া তেতিয়া ভানুৰ দৃষ্টিত পৰিল—ক্ৰোধে ফুলি উঠা চকুৰে; আকাশৰ পৰা খসি পৰিল, যেন পুণ্য ক্ষয় হোৱা কোনো গ্ৰহ।
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FAQs
Status (even ‘celestial’ stature) is unstable when puṇya is exhausted; anger further distorts perception and accelerates decline—an ethical warning against krodha and a reminder of karmic causality.
Vamśānucarita-style episodic narration with didactic karmic simile; it is not cosmological creation but moralized ‘itihāsa-like’ storytelling within the Purāṇa.
The ‘planet fallen due to depleted merit’ simile maps cosmic order onto moral order: celestial regularity corresponds to dharma/puṇya, while deviation (fall) signifies adharma or merit-loss.