Vamana Purana — Harihara Revelation, Shloka 54
Harihara Revelation and the Kurukshetra Tirtha Cycle: Sthanu in Vishnu and the Sanctification of Saptasarasvata
शिखासंश्थं तु ओङ्कारं मेषो ऽस्य शिरसि स्थितः मासो वैशाखनामा च प्रथमं पत्रकं स्मृतम्
śikhāsaṃśthaṃ tu oṅkāraṃ meṣo 'sya śirasi sthitaḥ māso vaiśākhanāmā ca prathamaṃ patrakaṃ smṛtam
ઓંકાર તેની શિખા (શિર્ષ) પર સ્થિત છે. મેષ રાશિ તેના મસ્તક પર પ્રતિષ્ઠિત છે. અને વૈશાખ નામનો માસ તેનું પ્રથમ પત્રક (પ્રથમ વિભાગ/પાંખડી) માનવામાં આવે છે.
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FAQs
The verse uses body-and-lotus imagery typical of Purāṇic tīrtha-cosmology: a sacred locus (often a lotus-like tīrtha/field/diagram) is described as having a ‘head’ and ‘petals’, each assigned cosmic correspondences (Oṃ, zodiac signs, months). This sacralizes the place by aligning it with time (māsa) and the heavens (rāśi).
Placing Oṃ at the crest signifies supremacy and origin: Oṃ is treated as the highest marker of Brahman/Viṣṇu’s cosmic order. In many Purāṇic mappings, the ‘top’ of a sacred diagram carries the most fundamental seed-syllable (bīja) or pranava (Oṃ).
The text is establishing a systematic sequence: rāśis and months are distributed across petals/segments. Meṣa commonly begins the zodiacal cycle, and Vaiśākha is a major ritual month; pairing them with the ‘first petal’ frames the diagram’s calendrical-astrological order for pilgrimage/ritual timing.