Vamana Purana — Daksha's Sacrifice & Kapalin Rudra, Shloka 28
Daksha’s Sacrifice and the Origin of Kapalin Rudra (Pulastya–Narada Dialogue)
इत्यन्योन्यं पुरा ताभ्यां ब्रह्मेशाभ्यां कलिप्रिय परिवादो ऽभवत् तत्र उत्पत्तिर्भवतो ऽभवत्
ityanyonyaṃ purā tābhyāṃ brahmeśābhyāṃ kalipriya parivādo 'bhavat tatra utpattirbhavato 'bhavat
Thus, long ago, between those two—Brahmā and Īśa (Śiva)—there arose mutual disparagement; and there, O dear one of Kali, there came about your very origin (birth).
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FAQs
The verse frames destructive discord as arising from mutual denigration even among exalted beings; it cautions that rivalry and defamatory speech generate far-reaching consequences and become a causal ground for the birth of personified negativity/strife.
Primarily within Sarga/Pratisarga-style etiological narration (explaining an origin—utpatti—linked to a cosmic event), with a didactic overlay about the moral causality of conflict.
Brahmā–Śiva contention symbolizes sectarian one-upmanship; the Purāṇic move is to portray such rivalry as spiritually regressive, implicitly supporting the Vāmana Purāṇa’s broader non-exclusivist tendency (harmony between major deities).