Shloka 12

Gift of Sudarshana — The Gift of Sudarshana: Shiva’s Boon to Vishnu and the Sanctification of Virupaksha

Devanagari script

यदीच्छसि पयो भोक्तुं सद्यः पुष्टिकरं सुत तदाराधय देवेशं विरूपाक्षं त्रिशूलिनम्

Transliteration

yadīcchasi payo bhoktuṃ sadyaḥ puṣṭikaraṃ suta tadārādhaya deveśaṃ virūpākṣaṃ triśūlinam

Translation

“If you wish to partake of milk, which brings nourishment at once, my son, then worship the Lord of the gods—Virūpākṣa, the bearer of the trident.”

Speakers

• Mother to son (a domestic frame within a tīrtha-māhātmya narration)

Primary Deities

• Śiva (Virūpākṣa)

Key Themes

• Tīrtha Mahimā
• Immediate fruit of devotion (sadyaḥ-phala)
• Śaiva worship as means to sustenance
• Practical dharma (household need linked to worship)

Verse Rasa (Emotional Flavour)

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FAQs

Why is milk (payaḥ) connected to worship of Virūpākṣa here?

The verse uses a household need—milk as instant nourishment—as a didactic bridge to tīrtha-devotion: even mundane sustenance is framed as dependent on divine grace, and Śiva’s propitiation is presented as a direct means to obtain it.

Who is Virūpākṣa in Purāṇic usage?

Virūpākṣa is a well-known epithet of Śiva, emphasizing his extraordinary, all-perceiving gaze (often contrasted or ‘non-uniform’), and is frequently paired with martial/ascetic markers like the trident (triśūla).

Does this verse itself identify a specific tīrtha?

No. The verse is an instruction within a larger tīrtha-māhātmya chapter; the explicit geographical identifiers, if any, occur in surrounding verses rather than in 56.12 itself.