Shloka 9
रुद्रसर्गः (नीललोहितः), अष्टनाम-स्थान-परिवारः, श्री-नारायणयोः अभेदव्याप्तिः
सूर्यादीनां नरश्रेष्ठ रुद्राद्यैर् नामभिः सह पत्न्यः स्मृता महाभाग तदपत्यानि मे शृणु
sūryādīnāṃ naraśreṣṭha rudrādyair nāmabhiḥ saha patnyaḥ smṛtā mahābhāga tadapatyāni me śṛṇu
O best of men, O greatly fortunate one—having recalled the wives of Sūrya and the other deities together with their names, now hear from me of the children born of them.
Sage Parāśara
Speaker: Parasara
Topic: Continuation of the account of the deities’ consorts and their progeny in the creation narrative.
Teaching: Cosmological
Quality: authoritative
Concept: Cosmic order is narrated through structured genealogies of devas and their consorts, indicating an intelligible, law-governed creation.
Vedantic Theme: Dharma
Application: Cultivate a sense of sacred order in life by reflecting on interconnectedness rather than randomness.
Vishishtadvaita: Multiplicity (devas, consorts, offspring) is real yet coordinated within a single divine governance.
FAQs
This verse signals a shift from naming consorts to enumerating progeny, presenting cosmic order as an intelligible lineage structure that supports Purāṇic cosmology and dharma.
Parāśara proceeds systematically—first recalling names and consorts, then moving to offspring—so Maitreya receives creation and divine genealogy as a coherent, teachable sequence.
Even when Vishnu is not named in a given verse, the Vishnu Purana frames these ordered genealogies as operating under a supreme sustaining principle—Vishnu as the ground of cosmic stability and lawful succession.