Vamana Purana — Bali Learns of Vamana, Shloka 28
Bali Learns of Vamana in Aditi’s Womb and Prahlada Teaches Refuge in Hari
शोच्यश्चास्मि न संदेहो येन जातः पिता तव यस्य त्वं कर्कशः पुत्रो जातो देवावमान्यकः
śocyaścāsmi na saṃdeho yena jātaḥ pitā tava yasya tvaṃ karkaśaḥ putro jāto devāvamānyakaḥ
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FAQs
The verse expresses shared disgrace: the wrongdoing of a descendant reflects back upon the family line and those causally connected to the father’s birth. It is a Purāṇic way of stating that adharma stains not only the agent but also the honor of the lineage.
It is the attitude/act of dishonoring divine beings—here framed as a serious moral deviation. In Purāṇic dharma, reverence toward devas (and especially toward the supreme Lord) is a foundational virtue; contempt signals spiritual and social disorder.
The excerpt indicates a genealogical relationship (speaker connected to the addressee’s father), but without surrounding verses the exact identities cannot be fixed. In the Vāmana Purāṇa’s narrative style, such lines often occur in admonitions within royal/daitya lineages where impiety is treated as a familial calamity.