Vamana Purana — Narada Questions Pulastya, Shloka 30
Narada Questions Pulastya: The Vamana Purana Begins and Satī’s Monsoon Lament
शङ्कर उवाच घनावस्थितदेहायाः प्रावृट्घनखण्डमुन्नतमारुह्य तस्थौ सह दक्षकन्यया ततो ऽभवन्नाम तेदश्वरस्य जीमूतकेतुस्त्विति विश्रुतं दिवि
śaṅkara uvāca ghanāvasthitadehāyāḥ prāvṛṭghanakhaṇḍamunnatamāruhya tasthau saha dakṣakanyayā tato 'bhavannāma tedaśvarasya jīmūtaketustviti viśrutaṃ divi
Śaṅkara sprach: Sie, deren Leib aus dichtem Gewölk gebildet war, stieg auf eine hochragende Masse von Regenwolken empor und stand dort zusammen mit der Tochter Dakṣas. Daraufhin erhielt jenes vortreffliche Pferd den Namen „Jīmūtaketu“, im Himmel weithin berühmt.
{ "primaryRasa": "adbhuta", "secondaryRasa": "shanta", "rasaIntensity": 0, "emotionalArcPosition": "", "moodDescriptors": [] }
FAQs
The verse functions as etiological narration: names and fame arise from specific karmic or mythic circumstances. It also subtly sacralizes natural phenomena (rain-clouds/season) as vehicles for divine or semi-divine events, encouraging a worldview where nature participates in dharma and cosmic order (ṛta).
Primarily Vamśānucarita/Ākhyāna (narrative account of notable beings and events), with a light cosmological coloration through seasonal imagery; it is not a direct sarga/pratisarga passage.
Cloud-mass ascent and ‘cloud-banner’ (Jīmūtaketu) symbolically link identity to the rainy season’s potency—fertility, renewal, and veiling/revelation. Śiva’s speech-authority frames the account, consistent with the Purāṇic tendency to harmonize cosmic phenomena with divine narration.