Vamana Purana — Kurukshetra & Prithudaka Tirtha, Shloka 47
Kurukshetra, Pṛthūdaka Tīrtha, and the Marriage of Saṃvaraṇa with Tapatī
सावित्रिमादाय ततो वसिष्ठः स्वमाश्रमं पुण्यमुपाजगाम सा चापि संस्मृत्य नृपात्मजं तं कृताञ्जलिर्वारुणिमाह देवी
sāvitrimādāya tato vasiṣṭhaḥ svamāśramaṃ puṇyamupājagāma sā cāpi saṃsmṛtya nṛpātmajaṃ taṃ kṛtāñjalirvāruṇimāha devī
Then Vasiṣṭha, taking Sāvitrī with him, went to his own sacred hermitage. And she too, remembering that prince, with joined palms, spoke to Vāruṇī, the goddess.
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FAQs
Recollection (smṛti) joined with humility (añjali) signals discernment guided by reverence—important in Purāṇic ethics where recognition of dharma often begins with respectful inquiry rather than rash action.
Vamśānucarita / carita-style narration: it functions as character-episode progression (persons moving, speaking, recognizing), rather than cosmogony (sarga) or dissolution (pralaya).
The move to the āśrama frames the episode within a ‘dharma-laboratory’: sages and goddesses become the instruments through which the worth of a royal figure is tested and articulated.