Vamana Purana — Prahlada vs Nara-Narayana, Shloka 4
Prahlada’s Defeat by Nara-Narayana and Victory through Bhakti
ततो विहस्य भगवान् मञ्जरीं कुसुमावृताम् आदाय प्राक्सुवर्णाङ्गीमूर्वोर्बालां विनिर्ममे
tato vihasya bhagavān mañjarīṃ kusumāvṛtām ādāya prāksuvarṇāṅgīmūrvorbālāṃ vinirmame
Dann nahm der Erhabene lächelnd eine von Blüten bedeckte Blütentraube und formte aus seinen Schenkeln ein junges Mädchen, dessen Leib in goldenem Glanz erstrahlte.
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FAQs
The passage frames beauty and desire as arising within cosmic order, not merely as human impulse; the ‘smiling’ creative act suggests that even kāma (desire) has a sanctioned place when integrated with dharma rather than opposed to it.
This aligns most closely with Vaṃśānucarita / mythic account of divine beings (ancillary genealogy/origin of a deity-associated figure), rather than sarga/pratisarga proper; it is a narrative etiological unit explaining a figure’s emergence.
The maiden’s ‘golden-bodied’ form and emergence from the thighs (ūrū) symbolically link desire/attraction to vitality, generation, and embodied power; the flower-cluster imagery encodes śṛṅgāra as a natural, fragrant force that can be shaped by divine will.