Shloka 24
आदित्यकर्म, त्रयीमयी वैष्णवी शक्तिः, सवितुरन्तर्यामी
The Sun’s Function and Vishnu’s Vedic Śakti within Savitṛ
आदत्ते रश्मिभिर् यं तु क्षितिसंस्थं रसं रविः तम् उत्सृजति भूतानां पुष्ट्यर्थं सस्यवृद्धये
ādatte raśmibhir yaṃ tu kṣitisaṃsthaṃ rasaṃ raviḥ tam utsṛjati bhūtānāṃ puṣṭyarthaṃ sasyavṛddhaye
পৃথিবীতে অবস্থিত যে রস সূর্য তাঁর কিরণ দ্বারা আহরণ করেন, তিনি তা আবার ছেড়ে দেন—সকল জীবের পুষ্টি ও শস্যবৃদ্ধির জন্য।
Sage Parāśara (teaching Maitreya)
FAQs
It presents a sacred ecology: the Sun’s action is part of a divinely ordered cycle that sustains life, returning nourishment to beings and enabling agricultural abundance.
Parāśara frames natural processes as purposeful and sustaining—Ravi draws up the earth’s essence and releases it again so that life and crops may flourish, revealing an ordered, providential cosmos.
Even when Vishnu is not named directly, the Purana’s worldview treats such cosmic functions as expressions of the Supreme Lord’s sovereignty, working through the Sun and the elements to preserve and nourish creation.