Vamana Purana — Vishnu's Sleep (Ashunya-Shayana), Shloka 27
The Caturmasya Observances and the Rite of Vishnu’s Sleep (Aśūnya-Śayana) and Shiva’s Monthly Vows
ततो विबुध्यन्ति सुराः क्रमशः क्रमशो मुने तुलास्थेर्ऽके हरिः कामः शिवः पश्चाद्विबुध्यते
tato vibudhyanti surāḥ kramaśaḥ kramaśo mune tulāsther'ke hariḥ kāmaḥ śivaḥ paścādvibudhyate
Entonces, oh sabio, los dioses despiertan uno tras otro, en el debido orden. Cuando el Sol está en Libra, despierta Hari; luego (despierta) Kāma, y después despierta Śiva.
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FAQs
Religious life is portrayed as ordered and inclusive: devotion is not framed as rivalry but as a sequential honoring of multiple deities, encouraging broad reverence and social-religious harmony.
As with the surrounding material, it belongs to dharma/vrata-vidhi (ācāra) rather than the five hallmark narrative categories; it uses cosmological time (Sun in Libra) to regulate ritual practice.
The ‘awakening’ motif signifies the return of auspicious activity after a period of restraint: Hari’s waking is central to Vaiṣṇava observance, while Kāma and Śiva appearing in the same sequence signals a Purāṇic synthesis where worldly flourishing (Kāma) and transcendence/auspiciousness (Śiva) are integrated with Viṣṇu’s order-preserving role.