Vamana Purana — Glory of Prithudaka Tirtha, Shloka 11
The Glory of Prithudaka Tirtha and the Akshaya Tithi at Kurukshetra
ततो हिमाद्रिः पितृकन्यया समं समर्पयन् वै विषयान् यथैष्टम् अजीजनत् सा तनयाश्च तिस्रो रूपातियुक्ताः सुरयोषितोपमाः
tato himādriḥ pitṛkanyayā samaṃ samarpayan vai viṣayān yathaiṣṭam ajījanat sā tanayāśca tisro rūpātiyuktāḥ surayoṣitopamāḥ
Daraufhin genoss Himādri (Himavat) zusammen mit der von den Pitṛs geborenen Jungfrau (Menā) die Sinnesobjekte nach Wunsch; und sie gebar drei Töchter von überragender Schönheit, den himmlischen Jungfrauen vergleichbar.
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FAQs
Progeny is framed as the fruit of harmonized household life under dharma; the text also hints that extraordinary beings arise from unions aligned with cosmic sanction (Devas/Pitṛs).
Vamśānucarita: it is a genealogical production point, introducing the next generation who will connect to major divine narratives (commonly Śiva–Śakti and sacred-river traditions).
The ‘three daughters’ motif frequently encodes multiple functions of the divine feminine—power/ascetic energy (Umā), purification and flow (Gaṅgā), and a third complementary aspect in variant traditions—suggesting that sacred geography and theology emerge from the same ancestral matrix.