Vamana Purana — Kurukshetra & Prithudaka Tirtha, Shloka 39
Kurukshetra, Pṛthūdaka Tīrtha, and the Marriage of Saṃvaraṇa with Tapatī
यदाप्रभृति सा दृष्टा आर्क्षिणा तपती गिरौ तदाप्रभृति नाश्नाति दिवा स्वपिति नो निशि
yadāprabhṛti sā dṛṣṭā ārkṣiṇā tapatī girau tadāprabhṛti nāśnāti divā svapiti no niśi
Dès l’instant où Ārkṣi l’aperçut—Tapatī—sur la montagne, depuis lors il ne mange plus; il dort le jour, mais non la nuit.
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FAQs
The Purāṇic narrative treats emotion as consequential: desire alters bodily rhythms (food, sleep). The implied ethic is not mere romanticism but attentiveness—unchecked longing can unseat balance, so the tradition often moves toward counsel, mediation, or dharmic resolution.
Vamśānucarita: it is a character-state development within a dynastic/heroic storyline, not cosmogenesis or dissolution.
Day-sleep and night-wake invert normal order, symbolizing inner disorder created by kāma; the mountain setting suggests heightened liminality—encounters ‘on the heights’ precipitate life-changing turns.