Vamana Purana — Ritadhvaja Aids Galava, Shloka 19
Ritadhvaja’s Aid to Galava and Andhaka’s Infatuation with Gauri
ततो ऽभूत् कामबाणार्त्तः सहसैवान्धको ऽसुरः तां दृष्ट्वा चारुसर्वाङ्गीं गिरिराजसुतां वने
tato 'bhūt kāmabāṇārttaḥ sahasaivāndhako 'suraḥ tāṃ dṛṣṭvā cārusarvāṅgīṃ girirājasutāṃ vane
Da wurde Andhaka, der Asura, plötzlich von den Pfeilen des Kāma verwundet; denn als er im Wald die Tochter des Bergkönigs erblickte, an allen Gliedern anmutig, wurde er von Begierde gequält.
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FAQs
‘Girirājasutā’ (“daughter of the mountain-king”) is a standard epithet of Pārvatī (daughter of Himālaya). In the Andhaka cycle, his transgressive desire toward Pārvatī becomes the moral and narrative trigger for his confrontation with Śiva and eventual destruction.
It is a conventional poetic metaphor: Kāma’s ‘arrows’ represent the sudden, piercing onset of erotic obsession that overwhelms discernment (viveka). Purāṇic narration often frames such desire as an externalized force to highlight how passion can seize even powerful beings.
No. The verse only says ‘vane’ (in a forest) without naming a tirtha, river, or sacred site. The geography is narrative-generic at this point.