Vamana Purana — Rudra's Wrath & Kalarupa, Shloka 61
Rudra’s Wrath at Daksha’s Sacrifice and the Iconography of Kālarūpa through the Zodiac
एतन् मया ते कथितं सुरर्षे यथा त्रिनेत्रः प्रमाथ यज्ञम् पुण्यं पुराणं परमं पवित्रमाख्यातवान्पापहरं शिवं च
etan mayā te kathitaṃ surarṣe yathā trinetraḥ pramātha yajñam puṇyaṃ purāṇaṃ paramaṃ pavitramākhyātavānpāpaharaṃ śivaṃ ca
O best of sages among the gods, I have told you this—how the three-eyed one (Śiva) disrupted the sacrifice (yajña), and how he also proclaimed the meritorious Purāṇa, supremely purifying and sin-destroying.
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FAQs
Ritual (yajña) is not self-sufficient without right orientation and humility; divine truth can overturn merely formal religiosity. The Purāṇa is praised as a means of purification—suggesting śravaṇa (hearing) and kathā (sacred narration) as legitimate spiritual disciplines.
This is best classified as dharma-upadeśa and māhātmya (praise of sacred teaching) rather than a core pañcalakṣaṇa segment. It supports Purāṇic function: legitimizing the text’s salvific efficacy (pāpa-haraṇa).
Śiva as ‘Trinetra’ symbolizes transcendent seeing (past-present-future; or the three guṇas). The ‘disruption of yajña’ motif often symbolizes the limitation of ego-centered sacrifice and the necessity of divine grace and inner transformation.