Shloka 47
Pracetās, Māriṣā, Dakṣa’s Re-manifestation, and the Brahma-parastava; Cyclic Creation and Genealogies
वृक्षाद् वृक्षं ययौ बाला तदग्रारुणपल्लवैः निर्मार्जमाना गात्राणि गलत्स्वेदजलानि वै
vṛkṣād vṛkṣaṃ yayau bālā tadagrāruṇapallavaiḥ nirmārjamānā gātrāṇi galatsvedajalāni vai
The young maiden went from tree to tree, wiping her limbs with the reddish tender shoots at their tips, as beads of sweat streamed down her body.
Sage Parāśara (narrating to Maitreya)
Speaker: Parasara
Topic: Continuation of the maiden’s flight and the bodily signs (sweat) that will become the medium for the extraordinary birth narrative.
Teaching: Historical
Quality: revealing
FAQs
This verse uses tactile forest imagery—tender red shoots and flowing sweat—to make the narrative emotionally immediate, grounding larger dynastic and dharmic themes in lived human experience.
By detailing the maiden’s movement from tree to tree and her wiping away sweat, Parāśara highlights physical exertion as part of the unfolding story, a concrete backdrop against which moral and spiritual consequences later become intelligible.
Even when Vishnu is not explicitly named, the Purana’s narrative world is framed by Vishnu’s sovereign order—human events and their outcomes are presented as occurring within the larger dharmic cosmos sustained by the Supreme Reality.