Vamana Purana — Rudra's Wrath & Kalarupa, Shloka 61
Rudra’s Wrath at Daksha’s Sacrifice and the Iconography of Kālarūpa through the Zodiac
एतन् मया ते कथितं सुरर्षे यथा त्रिनेत्रः प्रमाथ यज्ञम् पुण्यं पुराणं परमं पवित्रमाख्यातवान्पापहरं शिवं च
etan mayā te kathitaṃ surarṣe yathā trinetraḥ pramātha yajñam puṇyaṃ purāṇaṃ paramaṃ pavitramākhyātavānpāpaharaṃ śivaṃ ca
হে দেৱৰ্ষিশ্ৰেষ্ঠ, মই তোমাক ক’লোঁ—ত্রিনেত্ৰ (শিৱ) কেনেকৈ যজ্ঞ ভংগ কৰিলে, আৰু পৰম পবিত্ৰ, পুণ্যময়, পাপহৰ পুৰাণো কেনেকৈ ঘোষণা কৰিলে।
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FAQs
Ritual (yajña) is not self-sufficient without right orientation and humility; divine truth can overturn merely formal religiosity. The Purāṇa is praised as a means of purification—suggesting śravaṇa (hearing) and kathā (sacred narration) as legitimate spiritual disciplines.
This is best classified as dharma-upadeśa and māhātmya (praise of sacred teaching) rather than a core pañcalakṣaṇa segment. It supports Purāṇic function: legitimizing the text’s salvific efficacy (pāpa-haraṇa).
Śiva as ‘Trinetra’ symbolizes transcendent seeing (past-present-future; or the three guṇas). The ‘disruption of yajña’ motif often symbolizes the limitation of ego-centered sacrifice and the necessity of divine grace and inner transformation.