Vamana Purana — Nara-Narayana's Tapas, Shloka 101
Nara-Narayana’s Tapas, Indra’s Temptation, and the Burning of Kama: The Origin of Ananga and the Shiva-Linga Episode
नाहोपरि तथा मुष्टौ स्थानं शशिमणिप्रभम् पञ्चगुल्माभवज्जाती शशाङ्ककिरणोज्ज्वला
nāhopari tathā muṣṭau sthānaṃ śaśimaṇiprabham pañcagulmābhavajjātī śaśāṅkakiraṇojjvalā
De même, l’emplacement supérieur, au niveau du poing, brillant comme l’éclat d’une gemme lunaire, devint une formation de jātī (jasmin) en cinq fourrés, rayonnante des rais de la lune.
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FAQs
Purity and cooling gentleness (moonlight symbolism) are presented as spiritual qualities of a place; the pilgrim is encouraged toward calmness, restraint, and non-violence in sacred precincts.
As with the surrounding verses, it functions as tīrtha-māhātmya/etiological narration rather than cosmological creation cycles; it is best indexed as narrative glorification of sacred locales.
The ‘fist’ location suggests embodied mapping of holiness; ‘moon-gem’ and ‘moonbeams’ encode śītala (cool, soothing) sattvic sanctity, while ‘five thickets’ can be read as a structured sacred micro-landscape (pañca as an auspicious organizing number).