Kurma Purana — Purva Bhaga, Shloka 3
Madhu–Kaiṭabha, Nārāyaṇa’s Yoga-Nidrā, Rudra’s Manifestation, and the Aṣṭamūrti–Trimūrti Teaching
क्रोधेन महताविष्टौ महापर्वतविग्रहौ / कर्णान्तरसमुद्भूतौ देवदेवस्य शार्ङ्गिणः
krodhena mahatāviṣṭau mahāparvatavigrahau / karṇāntarasamudbhūtau devadevasya śārṅgiṇaḥ
Saisis d’une immense colère et ayant des corps pareils à de hautes montagnes, ils surgirent de la cavité de l’oreille de Śārṅgin, le Seigneur des seigneurs, porteur de l’arc.
Sūta (narrator) recounting the Purāṇic episode to the sages (Naimiṣāraṇya frame)
Primary Rasa: raudra
Secondary Rasa: adbhuta
FAQs
It implies that even fierce, world-shaking forces can arise within the sphere of the Supreme Lord; the Self remains sovereign, the source in which opposites like calm and wrath appear without diminishing transcendence.
No direct practice is prescribed in this verse; it functions as mythic groundwork. In the Kurma Purana’s broader arc, such episodes motivate later disciplines—self-mastery over krodha (anger), sense-withdrawal, and devotion—central to its Yoga-śāstra and Pāśupata-oriented teachings.
While explicitly Vaishnava in imagery (Śārṅgin), the Kurma Purana’s synthesis treats the supreme lordship (devadeva) as a shared theological register; the episode supports the Purana’s non-sectarian frame where ultimate sovereignty is affirmed without denying Shaiva pathways taught elsewhere.