Vamana Purana — Nara-Narayana's Tapas, Shloka 52
Nara-Narayana’s Tapas, Indra’s Temptation, and the Burning of Kama: The Origin of Ananga and the Shiva-Linga Episode
यस्त्वां यदा पश्यति चैत्रमासे स्पृशेन्नरो वार्चयते च भक्त्या वृद्धो ऽथ बालो ऽथ युवाथ योषित् सर्वे तदोन्मादधरा भवन्ति
yastvāṃ yadā paśyati caitramāse spṛśennaro vārcayate ca bhaktyā vṛddho 'tha bālo 'tha yuvātha yoṣit sarve tadonmādadharā bhavanti
Wer dich im Monat Caitra erblickt, oder wenn ein Mann dich berührt, oder dich in Hingabe verehrt—sei es ein Alter, ein Kind, ein Jüngling oder eine Frau—alle werden dann zu Trägern von unmāda (Raserei/Entrückung).
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FAQs
Devotional contact—seeing, touching, worshipping—when aligned with sacred time (Caitra) is said to transform all social categories equally, implying a leveling force of bhakti that overrides age and gender distinctions.
Dharma/ācāra-oriented narrative insert (often embedded in Purāṇic carita): it prescribes/validates ritual efficacy tied to kāla (time), a common Purāṇic strategy for sacralizing calendrical observance.
‘Unmāda’ can be read as devotional ecstasy (bhāva) rather than pathology: the boon makes the devotee ‘mad’ with joy, signaling a liminal state where ordinary decorum yields to sacred rapture.