Shloka 62
Genealogies from Purūravas to the Haihayas; Jayadhvaja’s Vaiṣṇava Resolve, Sage-Adjudication, and the Slaying of Videha
जग्राह जगतां योनिं स्मृत्वा नारायणं नृपः / प्राहिणोद् वै विदेहाय दानवेभ्यो यथा हरिः
jagrāha jagatāṃ yoniṃ smṛtvā nārāyaṇaṃ nṛpaḥ / prāhiṇod vai videhāya dānavebhyo yathā hariḥ
রাজা জগতের যোনিস্বরূপ নারায়ণকে স্মরণ করে দৃঢ় সংকল্প গ্রহণ করল এবং দানবদের বিরুদ্ধে বিদেহের দিকে প্রেরণ করল—যেমন হরি নিজে করেন।
Narrator (Purāṇic narrator describing the king’s action)
Primary Rasa: vira
Secondary Rasa: shanta
FAQs
By calling Nārāyaṇa “the womb/source of the worlds,” the verse points to the Supreme as the causal ground from which the cosmos proceeds—implying an all-pervading, sustaining reality remembered inwardly as the basis of action.
The practice implied is smaraṇa (intentional remembrance of the Lord). In the Kurma Purana’s broader yogic ethic, such recollection steadies intention and aligns worldly duty (rāja-dharma) with devotion and inner discipline.
Though this verse names Vishnu (Nārāyaṇa/Hari), the Kurma Purana’s synthesis treats divine agency as one Supreme power expressed through different names; the king’s dharmic action is grounded in that unified Lordhood rather than sectarian opposition.