Shloka 39
Kuru's Consecration — Kuru’s Consecration and the Sanctification of Samantapañcaka (Kurukshetra)
तस्य क्षेत्रस्य रक्षार्थं ददौ स पुरुषोत्तमः यक्षं च चन्द्रनामानं वासुकिं चापि पन्नगम्
tasya kṣetrasya rakṣārthaṃ dadau sa puruṣottamaḥ yakṣaṃ ca candranāmānaṃ vāsukiṃ cāpi pannagam
તે ક્ષેત્રની રક્ષા માટે તે પુરુષોત્તમે ‘ચન્દ્ર’ નામના યક્ષને અને વાસુકિ નામના પન્નગને રક્ષક તરીકે નિયુક્ત કર્યા।
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FAQs
Holy places are portrayed as living moral-spiritual ecosystems: their sanctity is safeguarded not only by human dharma but also by a divinely ordered network of guardians. The ethical implication is reverence and restraint in sacred regions, aligning conduct with the kṣetra’s purity.
This aligns best with Vamśānucarita/Carita-style narrative material and kṣetra-māhātmya (a common Purāṇic mode), rather than strict cosmogony (sarga/pratisarga). It is a descriptive-etiological passage explaining the guardianship of a famed sacred geography.
Yakṣas and Nāgas often symbolize terrestrial and subterranean powers (wealth, waters, thresholds). Assigning them to protect the kṣetra suggests that all layers of the cosmos—surface and underworld—are harmonized to preserve dharma concentrated in a tīrtha-region.