Vamana Purana — Shiva's Kedara Tirtha, Shloka 62
Shiva’s Kedara-Tirtha and the Rise of Mura: From Shaiva Pilgrimage to Vaishnava Theology
इत्येवामुक्त्वा वचनं दुग्धाब्धिमगमन्मुरः यत्रास्ते शेषपर्यङ्के चतुर्मूर्तिर्जनार्दनः
ityevāmuktvā vacanaṃ dugdhābdhimagamanmuraḥ yatrāste śeṣaparyaṅke caturmūrtirjanārdanaḥ
এই কথা বলে মুর ক্ষীরসাগরে গেল, যেখানে শेषের শয্যায় চতুর্মূর্তি জনার্দন শয়ন করেন।
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FAQs
Dugdhābdhi (Kṣīroda) is a cosmic ocean classically enumerated among the mythic oceans and also functions as a transcendent sacred locus where Nārāyaṇa is envisioned reclining on Ananta. It is not a terrestrial tirtha but a cosmographic ‘divine geography’ frequently invoked in Purāṇas.
The epithet signals a fourfold mode of manifestation. In many Vaiṣṇava theological frames this can point to the catur-vyūha (Vāsudeva, Saṅkarṣaṇa, Pradyumna, Aniruddha) or to four functional aspects (creation, maintenance, dissolution, grace). The next verse shows Nārada explicitly asking how the one Vishnu is described as fourfold, indicating a doctrinal clarification is intended.
Śeṣa/Ananta as the serpent-couch symbolizes infinity, stability, and the support of cosmic order. The image of Hari reclining on Ananta in the cosmic waters is a standard Purāṇic iconography expressing transcendence and immanence: the Lord rests ‘within’ the cosmos while remaining beyond it.