Vamana Purana — Rudra's Wrath & Kalarupa, Shloka 43
Rudra’s Wrath at Daksha’s Sacrifice and the Iconography of Kālarūpa through the Zodiac
एवं कृत्वा कालरूपं त्रिनेत्रो यज्ञं क्रोधान्मार्गराजघान विद्धश्चासौ वेदनाबुद्धिमुक्तः खे संतस्थौ तारकाभिश्चिताङ्गः
evaṃ kṛtvā kālarūpaṃ trinetro yajñaṃ krodhānmārgarājaghāna viddhaścāsau vedanābuddhimuktaḥ khe saṃtasthau tārakābhiścitāṅgaḥ
Ainsi, ayant assumé la forme du Temps (kālarūpa), le Trinètre, dans sa colère, abattit Yajña—le meurtrier de Mārgarāja. Percé, et délivré de la douleur comme de la conscience ordinaire, il demeura dans le ciel, le corps marqué/orné d’étoiles.
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FAQs
Personified ‘Yajña’ being struck by the ‘three-eyed’ power warns that ritual (yajña) without right orientation—without humility, truth, or proper cosmic alignment—can be disrupted by higher principles (kāla, īśvara). It also implies that even ‘sacrifice’ is not above moral-cosmic governance.
This is ancillary mythic material supporting cosmological mapping (Sarga) by giving a narrative etiology for a celestial phenomenon (abiding ‘in the sky’ with stars). It is not primarily Vaṃśa/Manvantara.
Śiva as kālarūpa represents time’s consuming sovereignty; the ‘sky’ and ‘star-marked body’ language reads like a mythic encoding of a constellation/asterism origin story—turning a theological event into a celestial signpost.