Vamana Purana — Vamana's Birth, Shloka 48

Vamana’s Birth during Bali’s Horse-Sacrifice and the Mapping of Vishnu’s Sacred Presences

Devanagari script

एवं कृतोपनयनो भगवान् भूतभावनः संस्तूयमानो ऋषिभिः साङ्गं वेदमधीयत

Transliteration

evaṃ kṛtopanayano bhagavān bhūtabhāvanaḥ saṃstūyamāno ṛṣibhiḥ sāṅgaṃ vedamadhīyata

Translation

{"avatara_relevance": true, "avatara_stage": "approach", "dwarf_form_aVamana Purana,64,43,VamP 64.43,sa cātmatanayaḥ pitrā kapilāyāḥ savatsayāḥ dadhnā saṃyojito 'tyarthaṃ kṣīreṇekṣurasena ca,स चात्मतनयः पित्रा कपिलायाः सवत्सयाः दध्ना संयोजितो ऽत्यर्थं क्षीरेणेक्षुरसेन च,Saromahatmya (Sarasvata/Tirtha-Mahatmya Cycle),Tirtha Mahima (Ancillary Itihasa/Origin Episode),Adhyaya 64 (Tirtha/Brāhmaṇa-śiṣya lineage episode; naming and saṃskāra of twins),64.43,sa cātmatanayaḥ pitrā kapilāyāḥ savatsayāḥ dadhnā saṃyojito 'tyarthaṃ kṣīreṇekṣurasena ca,sa cātma-tanayaḥ pitrā kapilāyāḥ sa-vatsayāḥ dadhnā saṃyojito ’tyarthaṃ kṣīreṇa ikṣu-rasena ca,And that son was abundantly nourished by his father with curds

Speakers

• Narratorial voice (Purāṇic narrator) describing Bhagavān; interlocutors not specified in the provided excerpt.

Primary Deities

• Vishnu (Bhagavān)

Key Themes

• Dharma of Vedic initiation
• Ideal of divine humility (Lord adopting brahmacarya discipline)
• Authority of Veda and Vedāṅgas
• Sage praise (stuti in narrative form)

Verse Rasa (Emotional Flavour)

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FAQs

Why does the text emphasize the Lord’s upanayana and Vedic study?

It presents Bhagavān as the archetype of dharma: even as supreme, he models the social-religious discipline of brahmacarya and the authority of śruti, legitimizing Vedic learning as a sacred norm.

What does ‘sāṅgaṃ vedaṃ’ imply in Purāṇic usage?

It indicates not only recitation of the Veda but mastery supported by the Vedāṅgas (auxiliaries such as phonetics, ritual, grammar, etymology, meter, and astronomy), i.e., complete traditional competence.

Is this a stuti (hymn) verse or narrative prose in meter?

It is narrative in śloka meter but includes a stuti element (‘being praised by sages’), showing that praise accompanies and authorizes the Lord’s dharmic acts.