Shloka 22
Matsya Purana — The Strategy to Defeat Tāraka: Pārvatī’s Birth
तनुस्ते वरुणोच्छुष्का परीतस्येव वह्निना विमुक्तरुधिरं पाशं फणिभिः प्रविलोकयन् //
tanuste varuṇocchuṣkā parītasyeva vahninā vimuktarudhiraṃ pāśaṃ phaṇibhiḥ pravilokayan //
Your body, dried up as though by Varuṇa, looked as if it were ringed by fire—while the serpent-forms watched, with raised hoods, a pāśa noose that had been freed of blood.
FAQs
It uses Pralaya-style imagery—drying, fire-like encirclement, and a bloodless noose—to evoke extreme cosmic or supernatural conditions and the loosening of life-bonds, rather than giving a direct cosmological mechanism.
Indirectly, it reinforces the Purāṇic ethic that bondage (pāśa) and release are moral-spiritual realities; kings and householders are urged elsewhere in the Matsya Purāṇa to uphold dharma to avoid the “noose” of punitive consequence and to seek purification.
No explicit Vāstu or temple rule appears; the key ritual-symbolic element is Varuṇa’s pāśa (bond/noose), a motif often invoked in rites as a symbol of restraint, sin-bondage, and its removal through purification.