Kurma Purana — Uttara Bhaga, Shloka 41
Tīrtha-māhātmya and Rudra’s Samanvaya Teaching
Maṅkaṇaka Episode
तत्र देवाः सगन्धर्वाः सयक्षोरगराक्षसाः / उपासते सिद्धसङ्घा ब्रह्मणं पद्मसंभवम्
tatra devāḥ sagandharvāḥ sayakṣoragarākṣasāḥ / upāsate siddhasaṅghā brahmaṇaṃ padmasaṃbhavam
সেখানে দেবগণ গন্ধর্ব, যক্ষ, নাগ ও রাক্ষসসহ এবং সিদ্ধসমূহের সংঘ নিয়ে পদ্মসম্ভব স্রষ্টা ব্রহ্মাকে ভক্তিভরে উপাসনা করেন।
Narrator (Purāṇic discourse voice, traditionally Sūta/authorial narrator within the Kurma Purana frame)
Primary Rasa: adbhuta
Secondary Rasa: shanta
FAQs
Indirectly: it presents a cosmic order where even powerful beings revere the creator-god Brahmā, implying a graded hierarchy of worship that ultimately points beyond created offices toward the highest reality taught elsewhere in the Kurma Purana.
The verse emphasizes upāsanā (reverential worship/attentive contemplation) as a spiritual discipline—an outward-facing devotional focus that, in the Kurma Purana’s broader teaching, supports inner steadiness and meditative absorption.
By centering on Brahmā’s worship within a larger sacred hierarchy, it fits the Kurma Purana’s integrative approach: divine functions (creation, preservation, dissolution) are honored without denying the underlying unity taught across Shaiva–Vaishnava syntheses.